The eighth multidisciplinary workshop on advances in preferences handling has been held in Quebec City, Canada on July 28, 2014, in conjunction with AAAI 2014. The workshop organizers have been Darius Braziunas, Markus Endres, K. Brent Venable, Paul Weng, and Lirong Xia. The program included an invited talk and sixteen presentations about conditional and constraint-based preferences, preference reasoning, voting, and preference modeling and languages. The workshop proceedings are available as AAAI Technical Report WS-14-10. A report about the workshop is included in the AAAI 2014 Workshop Reports published in AI Magazine,Vol. 36, No 1.