By Grace Malinee 1st Place, Prose, Create | Encounter 2020 When Arianna Pena woke in the middle of the night with abdominal pain, she was...

By Hannah Slatsky 1st Place, Visual (3D), Create | Encounter 2020 Artist Statement: I use mainly ink and watercolor in my artwork, but...

by Grant Hartley 2nd Place, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2020 AMERICAN IS 79TH FATALITY IN SPAIN CAR CRASH ... The doors busted out like...

By Haley Spencer 2nd Place, Visual (3D), Create | Encounter 2020 Artist Statement: This piece was originally created as a way to process...

By Margaret Ao 2nd Place, Prose, Create | Encounter 2020 Here’s the thing: I know that if I spoke about my sadness—the numbness—the days...

By Alexandra Kilgore 2nd Place, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2020 Artist Statement: This is a mixed-media collage made from magazine...

by Grant Hartley Honorable Mention, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2020 1. The Portuguese man-of-war is not a jellyfish, but a colony, not it...

By Laura Hill Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2020 Artist Statement: As a black woman, mother, and veteran I am deeply...

By Sophie Trist Honorable Mention, Prose,, Create | Encounter 2020 Warning: Sexual Content She stares at herself in the grimy mirror in...

By Aimee Murphy Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2019 Artist Statement: This acrylic painting on canvas is one of the...

By Acyutananda Honorable Mention, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2020 Galileo’s telescope Caused him conflict with the pope, While his...

By Grace Przywara 1st Place, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2019 Her color is beautiful. No need to go into wood or food metaphors about it–...

By Emma Bucher 1st Place, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2019

By Sophie Trist 1st Place, Prose, Create | Encounter 2019 Sonnenstein State Welfare Hospital, Pirna, Germany 17 July 1941 Dear Mutti and...

By Alexandra Seghers, feat. Claire Seymour 1st Place, Video (Short Film), Create | Encounter 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sebdyMC...

By Jennifer Sapjanskas 1st Place, Visual (3D), Create | Encounter 2019

By Clare McCallan 1st Place, Video (Performance), Create | Encounter 2019

by Jen Hawkins 2nd Place, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2019 When you take the boy, take my bones, she said. So they made a key of his cry,...

By Herb Geraghty 2nd Place, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2019

By Elizabeth M. Ekren 2nd Place, Prose, Create | Encounter 2019 As an anthropologist, I research the daily lives of refugees in Germany....