Archive for March, 2020

Grand Prize Bronze Winner (tie): Dark Train to Cusco

Tuesday, March 31st, 2020

By Chase Nelson A modern-day rescue mission raises questions of life and death. With her husband looking on, we took turns pumping her heart for her, pushing blood to her organs, to her extremities, hoping for a gasp to bring her back, tearful and afraid, from wherever she was now. Technically, they were called compressions. […]

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Grand Prize Silver Winner: Love in a Time of Abundance

Monday, March 2nd, 2020

By Amanda Castleman Navigating grief with the Okavango Delta’s last generation of Bushmen hunter-gatherers. When he was 15, Ditshebo “Dicks” Tsima took his spear into the bush. Hunting was still legal in Botswana’s Okavango Delta then, so he could follow an ancient coming-of-age tradition, practiced for around 200,000 years by his people: the Bushmen. Most […]

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