Frank Kensaku Saragosa was awarded 1st Place in Nonfiction Essay in the 2022 Prison Writing Contest.

Every year, hundreds of imprisoned people from around the country submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works to PEN America’s Prison Writing Contest, one of the few outlets of free expression for the country’s incarcerated population.


Read “Caught Crossing, Caught Between – A Tale of Two Cities” here.


Purchase Variations on an Undisclosed Location: 2022 Prison Writing Awards Anthology here.