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Trespass
By Sara Leonard Honorable Mention, Prose, Create | Encounter 2024 Harriet walks home, late one night. Tired and worn from a day of work...
Oct 23, 20243 min read
The New Consent
By Elise Ketch Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2024 Artist Statement: In a world beyond abortion, a promise to stick...
Oct 23, 20241 min read
Blind
By Sarah Terzo Honorable Mention, Prose, Create | Encounter 2024 Recess was over, and, as always, Kelly was first in her seat. The...
Oct 23, 20245 min read
Indefinite Detention
By Aimee Murphy Honorable Mention, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2024 A cell block for these “clumps of cells;” I guess it’s fitting, in a...
Oct 23, 20242 min read
The Cubed Sphere
By Sara Leonard 1st Place, Visual (3D), Create | Encounter 2024 Artist Statement: This artwork is a 3D sculpture and models of the first...
Oct 23, 20241 min read
Would've, Could've, Should've (Short Film)
By Nick Sansone 1st Place, Short Film, Create | Encounter Artist Statement: This short film, based on the script that was an Honorable...
Oct 23, 20241 min read
U.S. Sees 200th Person Exonerated from Death Row
by Sean Wild — The room is thirty-six by thirty-six feet. This is your home, but not by choice. You’re stuck here, put here against your...
Oct 17, 20242 min read
Minerva's Coma
By Helene Ryles Honorable Mention, Prose, Create | Encounter 2024 Since my twin sister Minerva went into a coma and my life had taken on...
Oct 16, 202411 min read
The Costs of an Unwinnable War: One Year after October 7
by John Whitehead — The violence in the Middle East sparked on October 7, 2023, has now continued for a year and shows little sign of...
Oct 7, 20249 min read
Demand a Veto of Delaware Death Bill
by Jacqueline Harvey Abernathy, Ph.D. — UPDATE: DELAWARE GOVERNOR HAS VETOED ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL I am overjoyed to share that the...
Sep 20, 20243 min read
Review of In Hospital Environments: Essays on Illness and Philosophy
by Alexander Pyles — Lots of ink has been spilled about persons with disabilities and the harms of ableism, but perhaps not enough has...
Aug 28, 20244 min read
“The Single Largest Humanitarian Crisis on the Planet”: Sudan’s Fall into the Abyss
by John Whitehead — Although the war between Ukraine and Russia has dominated the news, other countries have been suffering through their...
Aug 15, 20248 min read
Review of Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change
by Alexander Pyles — When thinking of the criminal justice system, we immediately hear Law & Order lines: “...the people are represented...
Aug 12, 20245 min read
A Brief Collection of Thoughts for Pro-Lifers When Talking About People with Intersex Conditions
by Aimee Murphy — One of the most important things to remember as you embark on this conversation is that intersex conditions do not...
Aug 2, 20247 min read
To Be Forgiven After Abortion
by Grattan Brown, STD, and Sr. Deirdre Byrne, MD — The mother in this story knew abortion was wrong but attempted it anyway because she...
Jul 31, 20243 min read
You Weren't Supposed to Build the Torment Nexus
by Jon James — The title of this piece was inspired by this satirical tweet by Alex Blechman, former staff writer at The Onion. From evil...
Jul 29, 20243 min read
The Consistent Life Ethic Can Save the Pro-Life Movement
by Kristina Artuković — Many of us in the pro-life movement have been aware for some time that the GOP’s 2024 presidential nominee Donald...
Jul 27, 20244 min read
On Political Violence
by Jack Champagne — Cover photo by Evan Vucci for AP . — On the occasion of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X...
Jul 24, 20248 min read
What Pro-Life Advocates Can Learn from Listening to Women’s Abortion Stories
by Grattan Brown, STD — When the US Supreme Court published its decision in Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Center in June 2022,...
Jul 8, 202411 min read
The Father's Lullaby
By Michael Forrest 1st Place, Music, Create | Encounter Artist Statement: I used to be pro-choice (although never radically so) until I...
Jul 5, 20241 min read
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