• 1940: A collection of her early short stories, “Dear Esmeralda,” won Honorable Mention in the Commonwealth Literary Award. • 1961-1962: Four of her
one-act plays won all the prizes in the Arena Theater Play Writing Contest: “Losers Keepers” (first prize), “Strangers” (second prize), “Rice” (third prize), and “Beggar” (fourth prize). • 1961-1962: Won top prize in the Palanca Contest for “With Patches of Many Hues.” • 1974: Second place Palanca Award for her short story, "The White Dress". • 1979: National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U.P. Creative Writing Center. Alfon won the
Palanca Awards a number of times: •
Forever Witches, one-act play (Third place,
1960) •
With Patches of Many Hues, one-act play (First place,
1962) •
Tubig, One-act Play (Second place,
1963) •
The Knitting Straw, one-act play, (Third place,
1968) •
The White Dress, short story (Second place,
1974) ==Partial bibliography==