2025 SHA Ethnographic Prose Prize

1st Prize – $200

  • “How My Mother Partially Vanished from Life An ethnographic essay on the Absent Presents in Participatory Healthcare”

Author: Roanne van Voorst

Genre: Nonfiction narrative

Contact: r.s.vanvoorst@uva.nl

2nd Prize – $150

  • “Water Boy”

Author: Aalyia Sadruddin

Genre: Creative essay

Contact: as168@wellesley.edu

3rd Prize – $100

  • “Ostreidae”

Author: Caroline New

Genre: Creative essay

Contact: caronew@umich.edu

Honorable Mention

  • “La Muerte de Farruko Pop / The Death of Farruko Pop”

Author: Eric Hoenes del Pinal

Genre: Nonfiction narrative

Contact: ehoenes@charlotte.edu