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March 17, 2022
Resilience: Today & Tomorrow Poetry Winners
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March 12, 2022
Resilience: Today & Tomorrow Nonfiction Winners
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March 9, 2022
Resilience: Today & Tomorrow Fiction Winners
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March 5, 2022
Resilience: Today & Tomorrow Nonfiction Honorable Mentions
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March 2, 2022
Resilience: Today & Tomorrow Fiction Honorable Mentions
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February 26, 2022
Resilience: Today & Tomorrow Poetry Honorable Mentions
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October 29, 2021
UA Poetry Center Program Asked Creative Writers Who are Incarcerated: How Do You Manifest Resilience Inside Prison?
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July 2, 2021
Resilience: Today & Tomorrow - 2021 Poetry & Prose Writing Challenge
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May 12, 2021
Building a Community of Gift-Givers
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July 18, 2020
Poetry & Protest Contest: Prose Honorable Mentions
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March 17, 2020
Poetry & Protest Contest: Poetry Honorable Mentions
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