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...

by Grattan Brown, STD — When the US Supreme Court published its decision in Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Center, many media outlets...

by Liliana Zamora — One year ago, on March 25, 2022, 115 deceased infants were discovered by Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU)...

by Briana Grzybowski — I have a friend who had her first child when she was working toward her PhD in psychology at Florida State. For...

by Lauren Pope — Content warning: discussion of porn and sexual violence My husband showed me a video a few days ago that depicted Jerry...

by Sophie Trist — For most of human history, people with physical and mental disabilities have been killed, institutionalized,...

by Samuel B. Parker — “A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our...