Heavy Is the Human Heart
By Haley Hartsfield Spencer 1st Place, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2024 Artist Statement: This piece is layered with human tragedy...
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Tophet
By N.C. Krueger 1st Place, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2024 Death has lost his honor— no one mourns terrorists, or tissue, or blobs of...
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Harriet’s Soliloquy
By Christine Novelero 1t Place, Prose, Create | Encounter 2024 “Look! An artist made this beautiful picture of Harriet! Her eye is open!...
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I Choose Therefore I Am, 2023
By Michael J. 2nd Place, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2024 Artist Statement: In Untitled (Your body is a battleground) (1989), Barbara...
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Scorpion Tower
By N.C. Krueger 2nd Place, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2024 I. God is jealous, and His Heat is dread to those who despise what He...
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Abortion Iz Fascism
By Anti Abortion Vandals Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2024 Artist Statement: The abortion industry and our elected...
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Nightmare in Red, White, and Blue
By Sarah Terzo Honorable Mention, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2024 On battlefields in the New World bodies lie among the refuse. Tied up...
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Graveyard Shift
By N.C. Krueger 2nd Place, Prose, Create | Encounter 2024 The ghostly light from the six computer screens envelops us, turning our...
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Reach Out
By Zaina Alam Piya Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2024 Artist Statement: In this artwork I tried to express the...
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Hate and Morning Glories
By Aimee Murphy Honorable Mention, Poetry, Create | Encounter 2024 "hate has no home here" Okay, well that's all well and good to say But...
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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...
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The New Consent
By Elise Ketch Honorable Mention, Visual (2D), Create | Encounter 2024 Artist Statement: In a world beyond abortion, a promise to stick...
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Blind
By Sarah Terzo Honorable Mention, Prose, Create | Encounter 2024 Recess was over, and, as always, Kelly was first in her seat. The...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Alive Without Permission
By Kelsey Hazzard 2nd Place, Music, Create | Encounter Artist Statement: The year is 2038. Dobbs babies are teenagers now, and they are...
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Tragedy
By Rosemarie Tischer Stith 1st Place, Visual (3D), Create | Encounter 2023 Artist Statement: The scripture is participatory. That is its...
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