This collection comprises a complete set of essays submitted to the Gravity Research Foundation's annual essay contest on gravitation, its theory, applications or effects. Also included are abstracts of award winning and honorable mention essays from 1961-2022. The winners of first prize, in chronological order (1949-2022), are: David B. Wittry, Richard A. Ferrell, Myron Jordan Lover, Gabor Strasser, Bryce S. DeWitt, Stanley Deser and Richard Arnowitt, Frederick J. Belinfante, Philip Morrison and Thomas Gould, Guiseppe Cocconi and Edwin Salpeter, J. Weber, Lloyd Motz, Winston H. Bostick, G.M. Clemence, Joseph W. Weinberg and Gerald E. Tauber, Banesh Hoffmann, Kurt Just, Peter R. Phillips, P.A. Sturrock, David Layzer, V.W. Hughes and W.C. Williams, P.A. Feldman and J.R. Gribbin, Stephen W. Hawking, John Faulkner, Arthur E. Fischer, Joseph Silk, Roger Penrose, Peter Kafka and Peter Mšzr̀os, Abhay Ashtekar, R. Brout, F. Englert and E. Gunzig, G.F.R. Ellis, D.N. Schramm, Jacob D. Beckenstein, Gary T. Horowitz, Jeeva Anandan, Lawrence M. Krauss; Lizhi Fang and Humitaka Sato (1985); M.J. Bowick, L. Smolin and L.C.R. Wijewardhana (1986); Tanmay Vachaspati (1987); Itzhak Bars and Christopher N. Pope (1988); Huei Peng and Douglas G. Torr (1989); Bruce Allen (1990); Michael S. Turner (1991); Robert M. Wald (1992); George F. Smoot and Paul J. Steinhardt (1993); T. Damour and A. M. Polyakov (1994); Gary T. Horowitz and Robert Myers (1995); D. V. Ahluwalia and C. Burgard (1996); Robert Myers (1997); Viqar Husain (1998); John Ellis, N.E. Mavromatos and D.V. Nanopoulos (1999); Arthur Lue and Erick J. Weinberg (2000); Csaba Csk̀i, Joshua Ehrlich and Christophe Grojean (2001); Steven B. Giddings (2002); Martin Bojowald (2003); Maulik Parikh (2004); John Ellis, Nikolaos E. Mavromatos, and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos (2005); Vijay Balasubramanian, Donald Marolf, Moshe Rozali (2006); Steven Carlip (2007); T. Padmanabhan (2008); Alexander Burinskii (2009); Mark Van Raamsdonk (2010); Ivan Agullo and Leonard Parker (2011); Claus Kiefer and Manuel Kramer (2012); Baocheng Zhang, Qing-yu Cai, Ming-sheng Zhan, and Li You (2013); Lawrence M. Krauss and Frank Wilczek (2014); Gerard 't Hooft (2015); Stephen L. Adler (2016); Ivan Agullo, Adrian del Rio, and Jose Navarro-Salas (2017); Jessica Santiago and Matt Visser (2018); Alessio Belenchia, Robert M. Wald, Flaminia Giacomini, Esteban Castro-Ruiz, Caslav Brukner, and Markus Aspelmeyer (2019); Maulik Parikh, Frank Wilczek, and George Zahariade (2020); Samir D. Mathur (2021); Cenalo Vaz (2022);