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

Synapse

Campus

Refuge

February 22, 2022

Nina Escueta

Down, down I follow the sounds Of waves and winds murmuring Against the rocks

Arts & Culture

Flowers

February 6, 2022

Match McGregor

Flowers How much should you spend on flowers for a girl? Forget special occasions, how much should you lay down...

Bus Stop 4

February 5, 2022

Manuella Djomaleu

walking against the grain hyacinth coat hedged over the knee, two legs stumble forward fighting tension. perhaps it is your...

Arts & Culture

Buddha's Sidewalk

January 28, 2022

Woodger Faugas

Kaleidoscopic luminosity, urban serenity, and vivid imagery –– these are the essential qualities exuded by this meta-illustrative, and regenerative, portrayal...

Arts & Culture

Code Stroke

January 28, 2022

Josie Xu

The patient is rushed into the ED Nurses crowd around Raise a leg Raise an arm More doctors surround Ask...

Student Life

Second Day

January 24, 2022

Zoe Onion

January 13, 2021 One of these days I'll turn the right way when I exit the stairwell. I'll confidently walk...

Arts & Culture

Functional Depressive

January 18, 2022

Salma Hassan

How are you? I Inhale. And I’m quickly reminded that this was first real breath I’ve taken all day How...

Arts & Culture

elpis

January 18, 2022

Wesley Kao

fleetingly she glimpsed by --- a backyard hummingbird fluttering, feeding her hatchlings: spiny, naked little things, blind and squirmy, perilously...

Arts & Culture