Winners
Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Crosses in the Desert
Alvaro Enciso is a retired man who lives in Tucson, Arizona. He puts crosses in the exact places where dead migrant bodies have been found in the Sonoran desert.
- 2020
- 24:36
- Catalina May
- Martín Cruz
- Dennis Maxwell
Somebody
When Shapearl Wells's son Courtney is found outside a Chicago police station with a fatal bullet wound, Shapearl immediately distrusts the official narrative.
- 2020
- 28:43
- Shapearl Wells
- Alison Flowers
- Bill Healy
- Sarah Geis
- Bart Warshaw
Centenarians in Lockdown
When the 1918 flu pandemic broke out, Joe Newman was 5 years old. Today, he's 107. He lives in a community for seniors in Sarasota, Fla., with his fiancée, Anita Sampson.
Songs of Speculation (excerpt)
Songs of Speculation is a lecture that explodes into multi-form performance, calling on the body, time, and the power of music to reclaim histories forgotten or lost.
- 2020
- 39:37
- Jillian Walker
- Ben Williams
Diary of a HomeSchooler
Sarah Alli-Brown is sixteen-years-old. She’s a high school junior whose school has been shuttered for months because of the coronavirus.
- 2020
- 11:00
- Anayansi Diaz-Cortes
- Brett Myers
- Kevin Sullivan
Dat Rona
Dat Rona, a Black colloquialism to describe the coronavirus, was produced in 3 days to disseminate ‘Rona’ knowledge after harmful media stories began to circulate that Black people were immune to the virus.
- 2020
- 01:05:34
- Janina Jeff
- Sam Riddell
- Chris Diggins
- Chad Milner
- Dr. Ashira Blazer
Infinities
Concerning mental illness, toxic workplace environments, Egyptian Rat Screw, and the nature of infinity.
- 2020
- 25:13
- Boen Wang
Borders Between Us
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother.
- 2020
- 37:26
- Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.
- Jay Allison
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
ROW-cub
A granddaughter and a grandmother try to communicate across generations, languages and phone lines.
- 2025
- 04:21
- Neena Pathak
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.
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.
A Sense of Quietness
Four women face the unexpected consequences of talking about abortion.
- 2018
- 0
- Eleanor McDowall
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
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
Mardi Gras is a State of Mind
A homosexual reflection on an effort to release ourselves from misshapen containers.
- 2019
- 11:32
- Mara Lazer
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
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
This Is Not A Drill
An emotional dive into the personal impact of the false missile alert that was sent out across Hawaii.
Espera / Wait
Two lovers share an intimate conversation on the eve of their breakup, exploring loneliness and intimacy.
- 2018
- 13:16
- Sayre Quevedo
Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo
Where is Cleo? It’s a mystery her family has been trying to unravel for decades after the young Cree girl was apprehended by child welfare workers in Saskatchewan, Canada in the 1970’s.
Counted: An Oakland Story
During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers followed every homicide in Oakland, CA for the entire year.
- 2018
- 56:30
- Adizah Eghan
- Anna Sussman
- Shaina Shealy
- Jonathan Jones
Host's Fat
Meat podcast’s host Jonathan Zenti is an overweight man (technically “obese").
- 2017
- 38:49
- Jonathan Zenti
God + The Gays
In her first radio piece, Phoebe visits Christians from her past and tries to understand whether queer people and homophobic Christians can have meaningful relationships.
- 2018
- 30:54
- Phoebe Wang
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