We are thrilled to announce the winners of our Dream, Create, Liberate: A Future Without Family Policing call for submissions. We asked artists to lead our collective movement with radical imagination, and we are thankful for everyone who submitted to our first creative publication! This was a leap of faith and so many excellent artists answered the call.
Poetry, Selected by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
Ryan Jafar Artes, Grand Prize Winner
Jolie Venettine Brownell Virgile, Prize Winner
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion, Prize Winner
Short Fiction, Selected by Josie Pickens
Jessyka Linton, Grand Prize Winner
Jacqueline Peoples, Prize Winner
Amaka Okoro, Prize Winner
Visual Art, Selected by Adam Pendleton
Moses Ojo, Grand Prize Winner
Chavonté Wright, Prize Winner
Nadeem Justice, Prize Winner
Dream, Create, Liberate is our first creative publication, and it may be one of our most revolutionary. The digital publication will launch next Wednesday on Juneteenth.
We want to share a special thank you to our judges, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, Josie Pickens, and Adam Pendleton for their expertise in selecting our prize-winning submissions. Stay tuned for the digital release next week on our website.
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