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UCSF Storytellers Take Top Honors

Creativity, curiosity and extraordinary storytelling are on full display in the winners of the eighth annual Synapse Storytelling Contest, with this year’s honorees transforming experiences in medicine, science, nature, identity and everyday life into memorable works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry...
August 25, 2026
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Inside Voice

September 17, 2022

[Camille Moore’s story earned first prize winner in the storytelling contest fiction category.] It was all mixed up inside of...

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To Be Laid Out

September 13, 2022

Nina Djukic’s story won first prize in the Synapse storytelling contest nonfiction category. There are things we cannot know until...

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GAD

May 18, 2022
She went to the doctor today And we told her she was sick She didn’t need a visit to know...