By Joseph Leo Hickey III 1st Place, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2023 As I sing with my one last breath, I cry out for life. In a world...

By Liv & Learn 2nd Place, Music, Create | Encounter 2023 Artist Statement: My song is called "Cease Fire" and is about calling out one's...

By Sarah Terzo 2nd Place, Prose, Create | Encounter 2023 They were sitting in her home, in front of the hologram machine. It was a warm...

By Michael Jezewak Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2023 Artist Statement: The Storm Chasers unites figures who are...

By Molly C. Sheahan 2nd Place, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2023 The words cave-in, and fly from my side Gushing chips of muscle and bone...

By Ellen Campbell Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2023 Solidarity We Protect Us The Torch I The Torch II Artist...

By Julie Gilmore Honorable Mention, Prose, Create | Encounter 2023 Warning: Contains descriptions of suicidal ideation. 1 You are at the...

By Krista Corbello Honorable Mention, Music, Create | Encounter Artist Statement: My original song, “the only way,” written on the day of...

By Cheryl Johnston Honorable Mention, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2023 I look to the stars for the peace I am seeking As I wander lost...

By Elise Ketch Honorable Mention, Visual (3D), Create | Encounter 2023 Artist Statement: This is a mixed-media documentation of a textile...

By Nick Sansone Honorable Mention, Prose, Create | Encounter 2023 Download Would've, Could've, Should've to read it in its original...

By John Evans Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2023 Artist Statement: A young boy at just 17 enters a man’s world to...

By Rachel Ventress Honorable Mention, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2023 Specters of birth ties broken shimmer as glossy reflections in...

By Kristin Turner Honorable Mention, Music, Create | Encounter 2023 Artist Statement: In Spring of 2022, anti-abortion activists Terrisa...

By Ellis Carlson Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2023 Artist Statement: This watercolor art piece is of Harriet, a...

By Elise Ketch Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2023 Artist Statement: I spray painted this on the pedestal of the...

by Sean Wild — As he rises onto the national stage, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to be a polarizing political figure. With the...

by Grattan Brown, STD and Elizabeth Nelson, MD — Sometimes what a pregnant woman needs most during a complicated pregnancy is emotional...

by Grattan Brown, STD and Matthew Harrison, MD — When the US Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade permitted elective abortion in 1973,...

by Judith Evans — An inmate is strapped to a chair and blindfolded. A white circle is placed on their chest, over the heart. Six...