By Haley Spencer 1st Place, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2021 Artist Statement: Seeds can’t form from scars. Every fragile branch cut...

By Mallory Nygard 1st Place, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2021 Best In Show When Gavrilo shot the Archduke as he rode unknowingly in his...

By Nick Sansone 1st Place, Prose, Create | Encounter 2021 Download The Last Supper to read it in its original screenplay formatting:...

By Rosemarie Tischer Stith 1st Place, Visual (3D), Create | Encounter 2021 Artist Statement: As a very young child, Rosemarie Tischer...

By Sunrise Transparence 1st Place, Video (Short Film), Create | Encounter 2021 Artist Statement: Entering the Actual Reality is an...

By Jennifer Christie 1st Place, Video (Performance), Create | Encounter 2021 Artist Statement: Amanda Gorman went viral with beautiful...

By Stephanie Midori Komashin 2nd Place, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2021 Poems will be written in the Japanese hiragana first, then...

By Kaine Spitak 2nd Place, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2021 Donnie Brandon Nathaniel Artist Statement: These are the last meals...

By Maeve Gilheney-Gallagher 2nd Place, Visual (3D), Create | Encounter 2021 Artist Statement: “La Monarca” was inspired by the migrants...

By Michael Jezewak Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2021 Artist Statement: American decadence takes many forms, only...

By Citlalin Ossio 2nd Place, Prose, Create | Encounter 2021 The first thing She hears are raised voices, echoing off unseen walls. Her...

By Joyce McCauley-Benner Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2021 Artist Statement: I first created this piece after...

By Francis Ittenbach Honorable Mention, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2021 What more could I have asked of you today; My bloodstream, had I...

By Rosemarie Tischer Stith Honorable Mention, Visual (3D), Create | Encounter 2021 Artist Statement: As a very young child, Rosemarie...

By Grace Malinee Honorable Mention, Prose, Create | Encounter 2021 The tilted tree outside Colette’s corner office window acted as a kind...

By Grace Von Lehman Honorable Mention, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2021 We held the hands of Miss Joann in the cold room where she died,...

By Beth Fox Honorable Mention, Prose, Create | Encounter 2021 On a hot and humid spring morning, Rhonda prepared for her 20 week anatomy...

By Hilary Beall Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2021 Artist Statement: After reading about certain countries bragging...

By Terry Jude Miller Honorable Mention, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2021 before we can form words before we have a mouth we speak in the...

By Daniel Collins 1st Place, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2020 Daughter of Spring and life-bright gaiety, Unwearied psalmist of the temple...