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🎉 Calling All Storytellers at UCSF! ✍️📸Are you a student at UCSF with a passion for writing or a talent for photography?...
05/02/2025

🎉 Calling All Storytellers at UCSF! ✍️📸

Are you a student at UCSF with a passion for writing or a talent for photography?

Synapse — UCSF Student Voices invites you to submit your best work to our 8th Annual Storytelling Contest! This is your chance to be heard, seen, and celebrated — and win one of a dozen prizes ranging from $50 to $250! 💸

🖋️ Categories:
Nonfiction
Fiction
Poetry
Photography
✅ Unlimited submissions allowed!
📅 Deadline: Friday, July 11, 2025

Whether you're a budding poet, an aspiring journalist, or a photographer with a story to tell — we want to hear from you.

👉 For more details and to submit go to: https://synapse.ucsf.edu/synapse-storytelling-contest

📣 Let your voice be heard. Inspire the UCSF community with your creativity.

UCSF students with a talent for the written word or an eye for great photography can win some $2,000 in prizes by entering the Synapse Storytelling Contest. We invite writers and photographers to submit their best work for a chance to compete for top three spots in four categories and win gift card...

Got some free time this weekend? Why not get started on your Storytelling Contest entry? Only 9 days left! $2000 in priz...
07/03/2024

Got some free time this weekend? Why not get started on your Storytelling Contest entry? Only 9 days left! $2000 in prizes! Unlimited submissions for all current & incoming students in four categories! Details at https://synapse.ucsf.edu/synapse-storytelling-contest

Welcome new & incoming   students! Want a great way to introduce yourself? Enter the Synapse Storytelling Contest! Prize...
06/26/2024

Welcome new & incoming students! Want a great way to introduce yourself? Enter the Synapse Storytelling Contest! Prizes and celebrity await! Winning photos, poetry & prose get $250, $75 & $50 gift cards & published on our website & weekly newsletter. Non-winners are also published and get $25. Enter by July 12 at synapse.ucsf.edu/synapse-storytelling-contest
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Check out Wynton Sims' winning story in the 2023 Synapse Storytelling Contest. “We lived comfortably, but that didn’t sh...
06/13/2024

Check out Wynton Sims' winning story in the 2023 Synapse Storytelling Contest. “We lived comfortably, but that didn’t shield us from our identity as Black people in the South. Contrary to popular belief, socioeconomic status is not the great equalizer.” https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2023/09/12/reflections-past-colorism-self-doubt-and-resiliency

Then submit your stories or photos by July 12 at synapse.ucsf.edu. Top prizes in 4 categories earn $250, $75 & $50 gift cards. EVERY entry published in 2024-2025 gets $25.

Did you hear? Our Storytelling Contest's back!   students with a talent in photography, prose or poetry can win prizes f...
05/31/2024

Did you hear? Our Storytelling Contest's back! students with a talent in photography, prose or poetry can win prizes from $250 to $50. Unlimited entries! Non winners published in 2024-25 get $25! Enter by July 12 at synapse.ucsf.edu.accepted

Did you hear? Our Storytelling Contest's back!   students with a talent in photography, prose or poetry can win prizes f...
05/30/2024

Did you hear? Our Storytelling Contest's back! students with a talent in photography, prose or poetry can win prizes from $250 to $50. Unlimited entries! Non winners published in 2024-25 get $25! Enter by July 12 at synapse.ucsf.edu.accepted

04/02/2024

What better time and opportunity than Black History Month to honor one of our own, a leader in student success advocacy?

Go to Synapse.ucsf.edu to read Juli Riggs' hilarious account of her battle with an intestinal parasite: "From reports I ...
10/28/2023

Go to Synapse.ucsf.edu to read Juli Riggs' hilarious account of her battle with an intestinal parasite: "From reports I receive, it sounds damn-near post-apocalyptic down there. You have begun to establish a residence in my Ileal neighborhood. This is simply unacceptable! You have given me no choice but to turn to metronidazole. I apologize because I know this method is harsh. However, you have given me no choice. Sincerely, Juli, Proprietor, Duodenal & Ileal Neighborhoods" https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2023/10/10/dear-giardia

No time to wait! Last day to enter the Synapse storytelling contest! A dozen top prizes of $250, $75, and $50. And $25 f...
07/07/2023

No time to wait! Last day to enter the Synapse storytelling contest! A dozen top prizes of $250, $75, and $50. And $25 for every submission published in 2023-24. Get your entries in right now at tinyurl/2023StorytellingContest

From Synapse’s Best of the 2022 Storytelling Contest archives: The Ultimate Experiment by Deepa Rajan. “They killed my t...
05/24/2023

From Synapse’s Best of the 2022 Storytelling Contest archives: The Ultimate Experiment by Deepa Rajan. “They killed my three brothers today just because they had aged out and they needed the cage space for their new microscope.” https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2022/10/05/ultimate-experiment
Submit your own unlimited entries to the 2023 Storytelling Contest by July 7! Go to tinyurl.com/2023StorytellingContest Top prizes in 4 categories = $250, $75 & $50 gift cards. EVERY entry is published in 2023-2024 & gets $25

Have you heard? The Synapse Storytelling Contest is back!   students can enter unlimited prose, poetry and photos. Best ...
05/10/2023

Have you heard? The Synapse Storytelling Contest is back! students can enter unlimited prose, poetry and photos. Best entries get $50, $75 & $250 gift cards. All non-winners get $25 when published throughout 2023-2024. Everyone wins! Details and entry at tinyurl.com/2023StorytellingContest

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