Winners of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Competition
Announcing the winners of the 2019 Third Coast/RHDF Competition!
These eleven extraordinary stories will inspire your ears for months (and years!) to come. Each winning piece pushes the boundaries of audio storytelling in the categories of: Best Documentary (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Honorable Mention, Foreign Language), Best New Artist, Radio Impact, Best News Feature, Skylarking, Best Serialized Story, and Directors’ Choice. Learn more about all these categories, the judges and prizes awarded.
A Sense of Quietness
Four women face the unexpected consequences of talking about abortion.
- 2018
- 0
- Eleanor McDowall
Change Intolerance
In 2014, the province of British Columbia switched nearly 15,000 methadone patients to a new formulation of the drug called Methadose.
- 2019
- 51:18
- Garth Mullins
- Sam Fenn
- Lisa Hale
- Alexander B. Kim
- Ryan McNeil
Death in Illinois Prisons: He Didn't Have a Death Sentence, But That's What He Got
For the last year, Shannon Heffernan has been trying to figure out how and why people in Illinois prisons are dying.
- 2019
- 06:50
- Shannon Heffernan
In the Dark: Season Two
Over the course of two decades, prosecutor Doug Evans tried the same man six times for the same crime. But that man, Curtis Flowers, maintained his innocence throughout.
Mardi Gras is a State of Mind
A homosexual reflection on an effort to release ourselves from misshapen containers.
- 2019
- 11:32
- Mara Lazer
No Feeling Is Final
Usually when we talk about suicide we say those four magic words: "Just ask for help." But Honor Eastly knows it’s not that simple.
Price of Secrecy: Hazineh Razdari
An unexpected turn of events occurs when 15-year-old Tannaz tells the police about being sexually abused by a friend.
- 2019
- 40:36
- Zoha Zokaei
Punks
Once upon a time, Kai Wright saw a movie called Punks. A romantic comedy about black gay men, it was like nothing he'd ever seen before. But then it disappeared.
- 2018
- 21:43
- Kathy Tu
- Tobin Low
- Matt Collette
The Return
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and his grandparents still live there. But visiting them didn't feel like the home he once knew.
- 2019
- 31:10
- Sayre Quevedo
ROW-cub
A granddaughter and a grandmother try to communicate across generations, languages and phone lines.
- 2024
- 04:21
- Neena Pathak
This Is Not A Drill
An emotional dive into the personal impact of the false missile alert that was sent out across Hawaii.