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The Dream Houses By Taylor Fang11th grade, Logan High School, UT With lines from "The Dream Homes of Guatemalan Migrants" by Jonathan Blitzer, a Pulitzer Center reporting project In this country of thunderand green fruit, there are more housesthan people.In this countryof maps, every pathleads away

Dining on Paradox By Audrey Dinh5th grade, Cold Spring Elementary School, MD 3rd place contest winner With lines from "Our Fish" by Michael Snyder and Felipe Luna, a Pulitzer Center reporting project I am dining on paradox,Both a plague and a blessing. Paiche. A giant, invasive fish,And yet this

The Joy of Togetherness By Taylor Jamie Yarns11th grade, City Honors School, NY 1st place contest winner With lines from "Let's Make It Easier for Kids to Visit Incarcerated Parents" by Jaime Joyce, a Pulitzer Center reporting project I sit in a classroom of 2.7 million future tragedies.Boys that

Bag of Bones By Kristen St Louis10th grade, Ethel Walker School, CT With lines from "Families of Colombia's Disappeared Endure 'Never-Ending Grief' and a Wrenching Search" by Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Most nights, the alarm clock failsto wake me up before

orchids By Emma Lee6th grade, James Weldon Johnson College Preparatory Middle School, FL With lines from "Death on Demand: Has Euthanasia Gone Too Far?" by Christopher de Bellaigue, a Pulitzer Center reporting project I. have you ever seen a flamealmost finished with its candle?a waxy pool of

Peace, Pieces By Cindy Phan11th grade, Skyline High School, UT With lines from "Vietnam's Sad Hunt: 300,000 Missing Souls" by Joseph Babcock, a Pulitzer Center Reporting Project (I ask Vietnam, What do you want?) First, the land.The swamp smileand soft bite of it, the wetkiss of its mouth closed

Cholera Laughed By Eugene Jang10th grade, Gyeonggi Suwon International School, South Korea 2nd place contest winner With lines from "In Yemen, Corruption Worsened World's Worst Cholera Outbreak" by Maggie Michael, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Cholera laughed and spatIn your face when

The Pulitzer Center is seeking applications from journalists who want to report stories as part of Connected Coastlines, a nationwide climate reporting initiative in U.S. coastal states. Started in 2019, this initiative is building a consortium of newsrooms and independent journalists across the U.S

The Pulitzer Center’s global reporting grants support in-depth, high-impact reporting on critical issues that are often overlooked in the media. This is our "catch-all" grant, so there are no restrictions on topic or reporting location. Staff and freelance journalists are eligible worldwide. How to

The Fury Inside Me By Prisca Afantchao10th grade, Windsor High School, CT With lines from "Ecuador's Crackdown on Abortion is Putting Women in Jail" by Zoë Carpenter, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Call me bodyholding something alien to mea positive feedback loopis feeding off of me like they

A Tale of Colliding Lives By Casey Chapman11th grade, New Tech Academy @ Wayne High School, IN With lines from "A Tale of a Trans Man in Pakistan" by Ikra Javed, a Pulitzer Center reporting project I wake up and roll over to look at the greenRegretting the pink I chose all those years ago I am

A Language All Their Own By Amaela Bruce11th grade, New Tech Academy @ Wayne High School With lines from "A Mom Fights to Get an Education for Her Deaf Daughters" by Kate Petcosky-Kulkarni, a Pulitzer Center reporting project "Ready or not, here I come." "Where are you?" I shrink down even more

Gone By Sarah Tumblin6th grade, DC International School, DC With lines from "How Climate Change is Affecting Iran" by Claire Potter and Ako Salemi Forced to move awaywith nowhere to escape from the dry desert.A problem you never thought would reach you yetits fingers seem to graze by your home

By Sofia Celli 6th grade, Village School, MA Honorable mention With lines from “In a Famed Game Park Near the Foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Animals Are Giving Up” by Georgina Gustin and Larry C. Price, a Pulitzer Center reporting project there is nothing left no plants no mud no leaves on the worn

O Fundo Semear é uma microbolsa oferecida pelo Pulitzer Center, aplicada à projetos de educação, para financiar atividades que enriqueçam as perspectivas e os conhecimentos da comunidade universitária—especificamente estudantes e educadores—sobre os problemas, soluções e inovações relacionadas com o

By Claire He 11th grade, Carmel High School, IN With lines from "‘Ticking Ecological Time Bombs’: Thousands of Sunken WWII Ships Rusting at Bottom of Pacific" by Thomas Heaton, a Pulitzer Center reporting project the graveyard juts like her ribcage from the seabed. drowned, it carries ghosts both

By Shezal Bardaie 9th grade, New Tech High @ Coppell, TX With lines from "The Mystifying Rise of Suicide in Pakistan’s Thar Desert" by Alizeh Kohari, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Content notes: This poem contains themes and descriptions of suicide. Chaman Lal received a call from home. His

By Ava Heydarian 11th grade, Walter Johnson High School, MD Honorable mention With lines from "The Story of Al-Eizariya: Jerusalem's Town Forgotten Behind the Wall" by Laila Shadid, a Pulitzer Center reporting project “Where are you right now?” He asked, Standing on the known side Not the side