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Trafficked By Kylie Lynn Khalil8th grade, Twin Creeks Middle School, TX With lines from "Health Care Providers Are Missing Chances to Help Victims of Sex Trafficking" by Isabella Gomes, a Pulitzer Center reporting project 30,000 dollarsIs what they told me I was worth100 dollars at a timeEach

Home Sweet Home: An Oxymoron By Molly Blander6th grade, Village School, MA With lines from "Denied Asylum, Migrants Return to Place They Fear Most: Home" by Tim Sullivan, a Pulitzer Center reporting project "Swiftly denied"Request for asylum drifts out the window Like the smoke from a snuffed out

Porque Eres una Mujer By Janet Fernandez11th grade, Back of the Yards High School, IL With lines from "Violence Against Women in El Salvador Is Driving Them to Suicide — Or to the U.S. Border" by Almundena Toral and Patricia Clarembaux, a Pulitzer Center reporting project To all the Latina women who

Cracks By Nathaniel Bowman11th grade, Lawton High School, OK With lines from "Fantasy of Germany Now a Dark Reality for African Asylum Seekers" by Angelica Ekeke, a Pulitzer Center reporting project "The name ANKER"… Looking up, I count the cracks in the ceiling; My favorite pastime. My only pastime

Women as Water By Iris Yu10th grade, Solon High School, OH With lines from "'They're Fearless': The Women Battling to Free Myanmar From Meth" by Kyaw Ye Lynn and Clare Hammond, a Pulitzer Center reporting project In the background, the riflesare always firing. Grown on gunshotsand disputed soil, the

double sonnet for education By Emma Miao10th grade, West Point Grey Academy, Canada With lines from "Portraits of a Pandemic: This West Philly High School Teacher Struggles to Reconnect With Her Students" by Errin Haines, a Pulitzer Center reporting project We linger on screen. Light, precarious

Remnants of Raqqa By Rena Rooyi Su10th grade, Pacific Academy, Canada With lines from "America's Abandonment of Syria" by Luke Mogelson, a Pulitzer Center reporting project in Raqqaman sweeps debris from a warzoneafter a night under the starsto look for someplace with a roofsweeping away the sound

A Wound Unhealed by Time By Nikita Bhardwaj11th grade, Princeton Day School, NJ With lines from "The Terrorist Who Got Away" by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, a Pulitzer Center reporting project land of emerald valleysand snow-capped mountains,a wound unhealed by time:Kashmiri's are silenced untiltheir

where water used to be By SydneyBlu Garcia-Yao8th grade, Bala Cynwyd Middle School, PA 3rd place contest winner With lines from "Where Water Used to Be" by Rosa Lyster, a Pulitzer Center reporting project i. eulogy for waterwater used to be running down our rivers, reservoirs robust,rivulets

Aviary By Vivien Song11th grade, Amador Valley High School, CA 2nd place contest winner With lines from "China Calls It Re-Education, but Uighur Muslims Say It's 'Unbearable Brutality'" by Nick Schifrin and Dan Sagalyn, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Begin with the dust in the air and the

River War Jessica Kim9th grade, La Canada High School, CA With lines from "The Lonely Prosecutor: One Man's Historic Fight for Justice in Central Africa" by Jack Losh, a Pulitzer Center reporting project when dusk falls,silhouettes of ferrymencreep across the darkening veinsinto her mineral-rich

we were fragments By Dana Blatte10th grade, Sharon High School, MA 1st place contest winner With lines from "A Teenager Starting Over in Canada" by Lacy Jane Roberts, Luisa Conlon, and Hanna Miller, a Pulitzer Center reporting project i. deathboys wake beneath lacerated skiesand wonder where their

A dream beyond the sun By Eleni Murphy7th grade, St. Peter's School, PA With lines from "How Does Coronavirus Kill? Clinicians Trace a Ferocious Rampage Through the Body, From Brain to Toes" by Meredith Wadman, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Jocelyn Kaiser, and Catherine Matacic, a Pulitzer Center

Applauding the Symphony By Maya Ardon12th grade, Skyline High School, UT With lines from "Scientists Have Turned the Structure of the Coronavirus Into Music" by Vineeth Venugopal, a Pulitzer Center reporting project And suddenly this breathing machine is adrug, a statement on gluttony and ecology

standstill By Miriam Alex10th grade, Nashua High School South, NH With lines from "'I Am so Afraid': India's Poor Face World's Largest Lockdown" by Tim Sullivan qnd Sheikh Saaliq, a Pulitzer Center reporting project voices whisper / from dingy television /holding malady / on their tongues /in the

The Earth Shakes By Deeya Prakash10th Grade, Sycamore High School, OH With lines from "With Her Head Held High" by Kalpana Jain, a Pulitzer Center reporting project They killed her father first.The memory is worn Like a word uttered too many timesThe sounds ironically unfamiliar as they roll off her

A Father's Nightmare By Victor Xia11th grade, Lakeside School, WA With lines from "China: Black Market Babies" by Sushma Subramanian and Deborah Jian Lee, a Pulitzer Center reporting project She was stolen from me. Such a small thing,it seemed. Petty, simple extortion.She wasn't a pretty baby

Awarded annually, the Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant supports projects by independent photojournalists historically underrepresented in the global media landscape. How to Apply EXPLORE WINNING PROJECTS Tara Pixley Immersed in Oil Immersed in Oil documents the most affected neighborhoods