The Asia-Pacific Nick Joaquin Literary Awards is an international literary competition jointly organised by the Philippines Graphic and its sister publication, the BusinessMirror.

The awards honour the best fiction and poetry published in the weekly Tony & Nick – the literary, arts and culture section of the BusinessMirror. The competition is open to all writers of fiction and poetry located in ASEAN member states – Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos – as well as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.