Here is the top 100 shortlist for 2021-2022 Essay Contest “Revival.” Congratulations to all!

We are thankful to all participants for sharing their stories of “coming back to life” out of different trials they have been through, be it pandemic, separation, or death.

Winners will be announced very soon. Please follow our announcements!

• ; - Zoleigh Borg
• “Revival” of The Fittest - Jessica Castillo
• Bipolar Revival - Laura Merleau
• A True Public Health Story - Matt P. Jager
• A Breath of Air - Ifunanya Ezike
• A Chilled Glass of Lemonade On A Very Hot Day - Gift Ehigiator
• A continuous revival of mind and body - Celesta Teijema
• A Deep Breath - Anne Spollen
• A Glimpse into Life During My COVID-19 Pandemic - Velma Cooper
• A Journey Through Revival - Alhardy Salum
• A New Leaf! Ahoy, Let_s Sail! - Rimmo Loyi Lego
• A New Path to Hope - Abigail Emig
• A Period of Discovery - Multifandom Shruti
• A Revival of the People - Kayla Thacker
• A Revival Out of Grief - Sariet Perea
• Are We Going Back to Our Old Lives - Anna Magtalas
• As the World Turns - Daryl Rothman
• At The Mercy of Time - Anna Mc Donald
• Back to life - Elena Korsakova
• Be the Change_ An Essayo Revival - London New
• Bouncing Back - Lisa Anne
• Breathe In, Breath Out - Barsha Mallik
• Revival And Its Disguised Beauty - Chelsea Bender
• Revival: A New Hope - Christina Ryan
• Code Blue, Code New - Mica Librella
• Commas That Look Like Full Stops - Shivali Yadav
• My Cursed Blessing – Noorah K.
• 682 Days Later - Courtney Conover
• Shot at Humanity - Deepshika Rathod
• Reflections on a COVID Christmas - Linda Caradine
• Covid: Reawakening Revival - Adina Y
• The Flower - Darcy Farwell
• There Is Light Beyond the Darkness - Alyssa Liverman
• Emerging from Ashes - Krishangi Oberoi
• Fall down seven times, stand up eight times - Kate June Gestopa
• For those of us with chronic illnesses – Echo
• Forging ahead: lessons for new paths - Ngozi Anna
• Shattered Pandemic Psyche - Elisabeth Blain
• Disaster Leads to Life’s Biggest Transformations - Robin Steeley
• The Meaning of Revival - Maria Velasco
• Revival and all its meanings - HB Best
• Change as the New Normal - Robert Stegman
• Surviving Schizophrenia - Sarah Myers
• The Sparks of Regrowth - Irena Hess
• The Formula for Revival - Raghav Pandya
• Perpetual Amelioration - Jiya Kalwani
• Pande-mixed Feelings; a 14-Year-Old’s Take on Covid-19 - Hakan Gulluk         
• The Importance of Revival - Hailey Beegle
• Loving, Losing, Letting Go, Loving - Danika Tintzman
• An Abrupt Adjustment - Frehley Galaski
• From Ashes - Nick Fontaine
• Fruit Flies - M_Shai Dash
• Gooseberries – Iulia
• The Hero’s Journey of Revival - Umar Saleem
• In Sickness and In Health - E.M. Ansley
• Life before and after. Pandemic as a new reference point in time - Aigerim Serikbay
• Life With and After Covid - Jason Harkness
• The Ultimate Revival- A Story of Love, Loss, and Hope - Emma Farabaugh
• The Longest, Shortest Summer - Sophia Preiser
• Night of the Living Dead: An Analysis of Revival during a Yearlong Spring Break - Simone White
• Of Lawn Chairs and Shared Coffee: A Reflection on Healing - Yea-Lyn Pak
• Only a simple clause in any contract - samantha pinazza
• Opening the Present - Katrina Kittle
• Discovering Life Again - Christine Picascia
• Revival - Reconnecting with Our Purpose - Evyn Jensen
• Revival - The Road to Restoration and Hope – Nnene
• When life isn't complicated - Tarik Emir Acikgoz
• Revival and Its Life Lessons during a Pandemic – Lisa Wall
• Revival and Preparation - Cooper Mcbrayer
• Revival and the Present: How Has the Pandemic Affected Revivals? - Kym Stevens
• Looking for a Light Switch in a Pitch Black Room - Suzy Bryan
• Revival of My Life - Vanessa Morse
• Revival Post-Pandemic: How Society Mirrors the Cycles of Nature - Natalie Vaughn
• Revival The Metamorphosis of Contentment - Michelle Zhang
• I Revived – Phoebe
• Reviving the Dead - Jean Ong
• Scar Tissue by Chandra Snicker - Chandra Snicker
• What does revival mean to me? - Hayden Reeves
• Sometimes it’s the Little Things - Miriam Johnson
• Spring has come - Elise Gao
• Stars Can’t Shine Without Darkness - Makenzie Crum
• Strange Notions - Anderson Doe
• That one time I worked in a covid van - Laura Fenney
• The Complexity of Life Through Death - Juno Bennett
• The Coronavirus, Dissolved Agitations - Rachel Friedman
• The World We Shape as our Own - Monika Przewoznik
• Revival: From Surviving to Thriving - Lydia Hardman
• The Normality Paradox of the Covid Era - Ariel Martínez Chávez
• The River Must Flow - Alexandria Jun
• The Road to Resurrection - Ethan Alexander - Ethan Alexander
• The Strength in Fighting - Divyasri Moulee
• the timeline of revival - Evie Korten
• The Lessons of Mortality - Sneha Pathak
• To Be, Or Not To Be - Iyanuoluwa Esther
• A Reason to Smile: Revival after the Pandemic - Kristin Toedtmann
• Two Years of Solitude: A Violin and Revival - Vikram Kolli
• An Unwanted Diagnosis in A Pandemic - Mitchell Warnken
• Weaving Warmth and Wailing Whispers - Kala C
• What Could Have Been - Wyatt Snyder
• Where Hope and Optimism meet the Warmth of Community - Laila Gosselin