Winners
Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Ear Hustle: Dirty Water
Ear Hustle is a unique creative partnership between Earlonne Woods, who is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, and outside collaborator Nigel Poor. Together, along with other men at the prison, they produce stories about daily life behind the walls.
- 2018
- 36:12
- Earlonne Woods
- Nigel Poor
Espera / Wait
Two lovers share an intimate conversation on the eve of their breakup, exploring loneliness and intimacy.
- 2018
- 13:16
- Sayre Quevedo
Entre Quatro Paredes (Between Four Walls)
To experience this award-winning piece in full, including a subtitled video, listening instructions and more about Heloiza's inspiration, click here.
Ep 1. Once Upon a Time, a Girl Needs a Distraction in Quarantine
To experience this award-winning piece in full, including listening instructions & more of Heather's inspirations, click here.
- 2021
- 37:43
- Heather Li
Emancipation: A Young Man Leaves Foster Care on His Own Terms
Days after his 21st birthday, Noel Anaya had one final hearing before aging out of California’s foster care system, and he didn’t want to go through it alone.
- 2017
- 05:35
- Youth Radio
- Noel Anaya
- Brett Myers
Except Me
Andrew Skillings is eleven now, but he was first diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a high functioning form of autism, when he was just two.
- 2008
- 06:26
- Erin Davis
Elevated (Grand Chicago)
An onomatopoetic memory of Chicago.
- 2009
- 02:51
- Aaron Ximm