2024 Winners
First Prize: Lillian Smith, “Sharing Happiness from Ñamarín”
Second Prize: Maya Gentilin, “Planting Seeds”
Third Prize: Samantha Carter, “Querida Wilma”
People’s Choice Prize: Jose Ruiz-Torres, “Nchi ya maajabu (Wonderland)”
2023 Winners
First Prize: Sebastian Latorre, “A Love Letter to the Serengeti”
Second Prize: Netanya Linares, “Swept Away”
Third Prize: Joe Yarbrough, “Japan: The Beauty of Friendship and Culture”
2022 Winners
First Prize: Kelin Carpenter, “Doors of Return”
Second Prize: Isaiah Franco, “Who Am I?”
Third Prize: Eliana Davis, “Look Around”
2020 Winners
First Prize: Liesel Rutland, “A Far Green Country Under a Swift Sunrise”
Second Prize: Jordan Holmes, “Alone But Not Lonely”
Third Prize: Brianna Sapounas, “Why Not”
2019 Winners
First Prize: Steele Smith, “I Am Not at Leisure”
Second Prize: Anna Fulbright, “Take Back Your Country”
Third Prize: Mahnoor Haq, “صداقة (Friendship)”
2018 Winners
First Prize: John Patterson, “Now I Can See”
Second Prize: Nick Butler, “Upward”
Third Prize: Bridget Murtagh, “We All Come From Somewhere”
Honorable Mention: Victoria Nwankudu, “I'm Just A Translator”
2017 Winners
First Prize: Will Randall, “If Walls Could Talk”
Second Prize: Punam Mulji, “At the End of the Road”
Third Prize: Erin Jacobs, “My Travels”
2016 Winners
First Prize: Brie White: “Wide Open Spaces”
Second Prize: Sara Futch: “Work Worth Doing”
Third Prize: Alex Bentley: “La Terraza”
2015 Winners
First Prize: Neelam Mulji, “Creating Serenity from Chaos”
Second Prize: John Estes, “No Sleep till Brooklyn Barcelona”
Third Prize: Paul Walkup, “No Shoes, No Worries”
2014 Winners
First Prize: David Blum, “Because Dogs are Too Mainstream”
Second Prize: Kalle Davis, “Las Chichiguas”
Third Prize: Carlin Connelly, “Le mélodi du bonneur”
Honorable Mentions:
Daniel Didok, “Friendships and Perceptions”
Jennifer Sellars, “Where Things are Hyggeligt and People are Loved”
2013 Winners
First Prize: Anna Le, “Việt Nam: My quê Hương”
Second Prize: Philip Coffey, “Go”
Third Prize: Ben Chalmers, “Det Snöar”
Honorable Mentions:
Bone Holt, “There and Back Again”
Brian McCracken, “I Was Because of Them”
Caroline Winn, “Accidentally in Love”
2012 Winners
First Prize: Zach Beaver, “No Shave New Zealand”
Second Prize: Chip Bowman, “The Prince of Chile”
Third Prize: Sarah Grace Keaveny, “Espero que te vaya bien”
2011 Winners
First Prize: Meg Lindsay, “For Me, Of Course!”
Second Prize: Nate Harceg, “A Change of Perspective: Challenge, Fear, Excitement”
Third Prize: Stephyn Duck, “朝の物音: The Sound of Morning”
Honorable Mention: Josh Turner, “Redefined”