2022-23 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition

A New Vision for the Third Coast Competition & Call for Entries

The 2022-23 Competition was a launching pad for the future of Third Coast programming and our annual Call for Entries. Now, we’re raising $50,000 to restart the independent Third Coast Competition in 2024 — made by makers, for makers! Please support Third Coast now. #WeNeedThirdCoast

2022-23 Third Coast Showcase

First and foremost, dive into the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Showcase to learn about our 11 Winners, 44 Finalists, and 20 Final Round Judges, including their curatorial statements about why they chose each award-winning story. You can also stream the Worldwide Awards Presentation, featuring all 11 Winners from last year.

Scroll down to dive into the 2022-23 Winners in each of our nine categories!

For the first time in 2022-22 Competition, we also launched several new Pilot Offerings, culminating in the following:

• Lowering rates for all non-English language entries through our Final Deadline;
• Offering dedicated feedback to nearly 30 entrants in the Best New Artist category, directly from the Final Round Judges;
• Expanding our Third Coast Listening Team to include audio makers, artists and curators Jackson Roach and Phoebe Wang;
• Hosting live in-person screenings at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago for 10 outstanding early-career makers as part of our Emerging Makers Spotlight.

FINALISTS

Best Documentary

• A Hole in the Silence / De Eso No Se Habla Podcast / Spain
• Accounts and Accountability / Lights Out (Falling Tree Productions, BBC Radio 4) / United Kingdom
• Halfie: A Memoir / Artist Propulsion Lab (WQXR) / United States
• How Do I Love Someone? Starring Megan Tan / WILD (LAist Studios) / United States
• Last Day: A Love Story / Last Day (Lemonada Media) / United States
• Live In Kyiv: Comedy From A War Zone / BBC Radio 4 (Lead Mojo) / United Kingdom
• Love, Death and Benzodope / Crackdown / Canada
• Whip Law / The Wind / United States & United Kingdom

Best Documentary: Short

• A New Tense / Short Cuts (Falling Tree Productions, BBC Radio 4) / Czech Republic
• Cold t-ts, warm hearts: the cold water dippers of Maine / Outside/In (New Hampshire Public Radio) / United States
• My Iron Lung / Radio Diaries / United States
• Nancy Masters searches for answers / Georgia Public Broadcasting / United States

Audio Unbound

• JOURNEY(S) / HumanitiesDC, KPFA / United States & Ethiopia
• The McSweeney's Audio Issue / McSweeney's Publishing & Radiotopia from PRX / United States
• Weird Noise / Weird Noise / United Kingdom
• Welcome to Vanguard Estates / Flash Forward / United States

Best Documentary: Non-English Language

• El sueño de La Bestia (The Beast's Dream) / Crónicas al borde Podcast / Ecuador
• Episódio 2: O breu da floresta (Episode 2: The Forest's Dusk) / Habitat Podcast (Folha de S.Paulo) / Brazil
• Leti ili umri (Fly or Die) / Radio Atlas & Croatian Radio HRT-HR3 Dokumentarna radiodrama / Croatia
• El baño (Instructions for going to the bathroom) / CUIR: Historias disidentes / Mexico

Best New Artist

• Am I Able? / FreshEd Podcast / United States
• Lost In Translation / The California Report Magazine (KQED) & Code Switch (NPR) / United States
• Old Tapes / Funny Stories to Tell in the Dark Podcast / United States
• The Sound Collector / Soundscape Productions / United Kingdom

Impact

• Farm Succession in Northeast Montana / Reframing Rural / United States
• My Neighbor the Suspected War Criminal / Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX / United States
• Roe Was Never Enough / VICE News Reports (VICE) in partnership with Type Investigations / United States
• The Last Year at Forest Cove / WABE / United States

Best Serialized Story

• After Ayotzinapa/Después de Ayotzinapa / Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, the National Security Archive, PRX/Adonde Media / United States & Mexico
• I Will Not Grow Old Here / Radio Workshop / South Africa
• In Deep: One City's Year of Climate Chaos / American Public Media / United States
• Mother Country Radicals / Crooked Media / United States
• On Our Watch / KQED & NPR / United States
• Pillow Talk / Audible & Easy Tiger & Audiocraft / Australia
• Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s / Spotify Studios / United States
• Third Squad: After Afghanistan / Airloom Media / United States

Best News Feature

• A Thursday night — the last Thursday night — at Northfield's Rustic Restaurant / Vermont Public / United States
• City targeted same homeless New Yorkers over and over in encampment sweeps, data shows / Morning Edition (WNYC) / United States
• Escape From Tarkov / On the Media (WNYC) / United States
• Jamie's Spot / Island Morning (CBC Radio) / Canada

Directors' Choice

• Black Radio Rochester / WXIR Community Radio / United States
• feeling body / Between the Ears (Falling Tree Productions, BBC Radio 3) / United Kingdom, Kenya
• Stas THEE Boss Pays the Cost in Change / Fresh off the Spaceship (KEXP) / United States
• Variations on M. / Lucia Festival / Italy