Tears of Blood
Tiffanee likes when I tell her stories; she says it allows her mind to escape the prison of poverty, letting her thoughts run free from this five-by-five-foot tunnel. Far… More
Prison Writing Award Winners: 2014–2015
Announcing the winners of PEN’s annual Prison Writing Contest, one of the few outlets of free expression for the country’s incarcerated population. More
Symmetry Gates
Under the very best of circumstances, it’s hard to get a solid night’s sleep in prison. For one thing, your mattress is only half an inch thick. Then there’s… More
The Summer I Lost My Innocence
She was alive. I could see the covers move over her shoulder just a little bit. The morning light creeping through the sheer curtains at an odd angle across… More
Junk Menagerie
Haley Teget was awarded First Place in Fiction in the 2015 Prison Writing Contest. More
Labels Break Me
He grows and he grows and still dreams of space. But along come friends to show him how to get there. A little plastic bag no bigger then his… More
Sedimentary
Years before we moved into the little white house / on the hill a road construction crew sliced off / the hillside edge to make way for the highway… More
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