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Swim Lessons

[Runner-Up for the 2024 Proximity Prize] They checked our military IDs as they stood in camouflage outside our high school and slung M-16 machine guns around their shoulders. And their eyes lingered a little too long on shy, sophomore girls standing in line. 
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Motherlove and Memory

[Winner of the 2024 Proximity Prize] Not much can prepare you for the day when you greet your mother and she pulls back in alarm. When you place your hand gently on her shoulder, look into her eyes, and she returns your gaze with suspicion and fear. When saying "It's me," fails to suggest a hint of familiarity. 
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2024 Proximity Prize Issue | Theme: TRANSPLANT

The 2025 Proximity Prize Issue is here! Submit something! We’re pleased to announce: The 2025 Proximity Literary Journalism Prize and Personal Essay Prize with the..
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Abidjan Zoo: A War Story

Photojournalst Michaël Zumstein stepped inside the Abidjan Zoo while the Ivory Coast was at war. This is his dispatch.
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Already We are Less Than Ever Before

A lyric essay by Alison Powell, selected by Judge Hanif Adurraqib as winner of Proximity’s 2nd Personal Essay Prize.
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Split Down the Middle

In this audio essay, Sarah P. Reynolds explores one teenager’s painful secret, and how sharing that secret became a form of activism. “Split Down the Middle” is an original work produced for Proximity‘s BORDERS issue.
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Telling true stories — our challenge (for you)

In thirty days, Proximity’s Narrative Journalism Prize will be closed to submissions. Here’s the thing – the uncensored truth: this end of the creative nonfiction..