Competition Finalists

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Human After All: Distinguishing the Human from the Computer by Sean Stempler

In a world where Twitter inhabitants connect with their friends, share their daily lives and identities with the general public, @horse_ebooks offered a beautiful...

Hairy Confrontations: a review of Sonya Clark’s solo show at Contemporary Wing, AHEAD OF HAIR by Roxanne Goldberg

This article was selected as a finalist in the 2013 DC Student Arts Journalism Challenge, an annual competition designed to identify and support talented...

Is MoMA Putting Artists Back in the Closet? by Mark Stern

This article was selected as a finalist in the 2013 DC Student Arts Journalism Challenge, an annual competition designed to identify and support talented...

Phyllida Lloyd’s Julius Caesar: Guts, Glory, and Girl Power by Megan Fraedrich

This article was selected as a finalist in the 2013 DC Student Arts Journalism Challenge, an annual competition designed to identify and support talented...

Growing pains become pleasures in Chobsky’s Perks by Mary Borowiec

This article was selected as a finalist in the 2013 DC Student Arts Journalism Challenge, an annual competition designed to identify and support talented...

Why Artists Should Stop Playing Their Seminal Albums Live By Paula Mejia

This article was selected as a finalist in the 2013 DC Student Arts Journalism Challenge, an annual competition designed to identify and support talented...

La Belle Arti by Mimi McCormick

This article was selected as a finalist in the 2012 DC Student Arts Journalism Challenge, an annual competition designed to identify and support talented...

[2012 Winner] Leibovitz Journeys from Lennon to Landscapes by Julia Lloyd-George

If there’s one talent photographer Annie Leibovitz is known for, it’s capturing the essence of celebrity. Her daring portraits of famed figures from John...

Open to All: The Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation by Andrew Doerr

The Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation proves that the amateur music presence in DC is powerful, and all are welcome to become a part...

Tearful Photography at the Katzen by Kendall Breitman

It’s Laurel Nakadate’s party, and she’ll cry if she wants to. In an acknowledgement to loneliness, Nakadate’s photography exhibition “365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears”...

Must-read

Two Poems by Jamilah Ali

Do Black People Speak a Foreign Language?Hell to the no. You told me 50 years agoDonna Reed cannot translate jive into Wonder BreadUnderstood soft...

Homemade Saints by Bliss Goldstein

You’ve forgotten the names of your homemade saintswho crowd in the dark behind your thin lids.In the veil you’ve drawn betweenHere and Not Here, they...

The Opposite of Gaslighting by Sunu P. Chandy

*With gratitude to all who contributed to this crowd-sourced list poem following my social media inquiry I’m so sorry that happened to you.It makes sense...