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The Fountain Essay Contests
Nov 14, 2019

Should We Be Grateful? (2018)

How to Face a Disaster? (2017)

I am an Immigrant (2016)

The Defining Theme of Our Age (2015)

You and Your 100-Year-Old Self (2014)

What Is Your Motto? (2013)

The Last 72 (2010 )

Should We Be Grateful? (2018)

1st Place

“Grateful for A Soldier’s War”

  • Celine Dan Tam Nguyen

2nd Place

“At Least”

  • Gaye Brown

3rd Place

“Homeless”

  • Judy Ann Eichstedt

Honorable Mention

“Grateful for Death”

  • Jessica Gurgick

Honorable Mention

“What Do You Say?”

  • Kimberly Moore

How to Face a Disaster? (2017)

1st Place

Curtains in the Breeze

  • Nyri Bakkalian

2nd Place

80 Miles

  • Beth J. Polazzo

3rd Place

It’s Not about Where You Break

  • Kassandra M. Lighthouse

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Sweaty Armpits and Infinite To-Do Lists

  • Jordann Cress

Love and Suicide

  • Jan McDaniel

I am an Immigrant (2016)

1st Place

  • Peter Ferguson Swarr

2nd Place

  • Matthew Hawk Eldridge

3rd Place

  • Valentina Locatelli

Honorable Mention

  • Salma Hany Abdel Fattah

Honorable Mention

  • Claudia Verona

Special Thanks

  • Karina Nava-Melchor
  • Ray Mwareya
  • Lawrence Brazier
  • Janette Conger
  • Nuran Elif Öztürk

The Defining Theme of Our Age (2015)

How do you think history will record the 21st century?

1st Place

  • Mariya Tytarenko

2nd Place

  • Tony Mitchell

3rd Place

  • Billy von Raven

Honorable Mention

  • Deborah Moldow

Honorable Mention

  • Serenity Jean Miller

You and Your 100-Year-Old Self (2014)

1st Place

  • Elizabeth Allen

2nd Place

  • Matt Hritz

3rd Place

  • Philip Golabuk

Honorable Mention

  • Tarbia Hamid

Honorable Mention

  • Jean Blanchard

What Is Your Motto? (2013)

1st Place

  • Magdalena Rusanova

2nd Place

  • Noble Lee

3rd Place

  • Janet Fichter

Honorable Mention

  • Caroline Lancaster

Honorable Mention

  • Elizabeth Harmatys Park

The Last 72 (2010 )

1st Place

  • Joseph J. SALTER

2nd Place

  • Ha-Thanh NGUYEN

3rd Place

  • Joanna BODNAR

Honorable Mention

  • Belinda STURGILL

Honorable Mention

  • Kimberly PARKER