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SWS: Light Breaks Water Challenge Winners
Welcome back to the Summer Writing Series, and to our first poetry challenge winners announcement of the season. For this challenge, we asked you to write like sunlight touching the surface. To find the stillness before the ripple, the moment where something shifts without warning.
By Vocal Curation Team7 months ago in Resources
I Wrote This Challenge Winners
It takes a different kind of bravery to tell your story out loud. For this challenge, we asked you to write something only you could say, and then actually say it, with your voice, on camera. And you delivered with truth, courage, and unforgettable moments.
By Vocal Curation Team8 months ago in Resources
I Didn’t Say That Out Loud Challenge Winners
You don’t always realize how much you’re holding in until the words start to come out. For this challenge, we asked you to write the things you don’t say out loud, and the response was overwhelming. These poems unearth fears, held-back anger, complicated love, and the kind of honesty that doesn’t always fit into conversation.
By Vocal Curation Team8 months ago in Resources
History Would’ve Burned This Page Challenge Winners
This challenge was about reclaiming the erased, the rewritten, and the overlooked. The winning stories dig deep into forgotten histories and bring them to light with urgency and care. From resistance fighters and buried languages to personal reckonings and systemic silence, these writers didn’t just revisit the past, they made it speak.
By Vocal Curation Team8 months ago in Resources
Pride Under Pressure Challenge Winners
Some identities are easy to carry. Others take work. This challenge was about writing into that work. The weight of being seen. The quiet courage it takes to stay visible. Writers shared personal, honest moments of fear, love, exhaustion, and resilience, not trying to explain, just telling the truth.
By Vocal Curation Team9 months ago in Resources
I Resign From… Challenge Winners
Some roles you take on. Others get handed to you. Quietly. Without a conversation. This challenge was about saying you're done. With being the strong one. The fixer. The secret keeper. The one who never says no. We asked you to write a resignation letter to the parts of yourself that no longer serve you.
By Vocal Curation Team9 months ago in Resources
Tomorrow’s Utopia Challenge Winners
For this challenge, we asked you to imagine a flawless future—then show us the cracks. Some stories gave us glossy cities hiding quiet rebellions. Others leaned into satire, where democracy turned chaotic or Taco Bell ran the world. A few hit us with emotional gut punches in places where everything seemed fine—until it wasn’t. From sterile peace to algorithmic intimacy, these visions of utopia were as varied as they were sharp.
By Vocal Curation Team10 months ago in Resources
The Metamorphosis of the Mind Challenge Winners
For this challenge, we asked you to share a moment of deep personal transformation. Not the polished, triumphant kind—but the messy, vulnerable kind. The kind that begins with unraveling and ends with something closer to clarity.
By Vocal Curation Team10 months ago in Resources
500 Word Shockwave Challenge Winners
A great twist doesn’t just surprise you—it makes you see the whole story differently. For this challenge, we asked you to write exactly 500 words of flash fiction that built to a twist big enough to flip everything upside down. The goal wasn’t just to shock, but to make that final moment land in a way that stuck with the reader.
By Vocal Curation Team10 months ago in Resources
