Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing
Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing is a vital work demonstrating that prison writing represents a vibrant part of American literature. More
Minutes Before Six
“You are going to have a rather interesting map of what a person goes through during the years preceding an execution. He ruminated, “Sometimes I think that the missing… More
A Shock to the System
Natural disasters often lay bare a society's grim realities and sometimes shock citizens into political action. Twenty years ago today, a catastrophic earthquake in Mexico City shook that society… More
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We applaud the introduction of @RepDeSaulnier's Saving Local News Act, which will recognize local journalism as a public good and benefit its sustainability nationwide by making it easier for local news outlets to become nonprofits. Read more here: http://bit.ly/31ceXIs
We're hosting @PENamerica 2021 Prison Writing Awards! Join us Dec 15 @ 7PM EST for a virtual celebration of selected pieces by incarcerated authors read by some of our favorite writers @baratunde @Piper @MitchSJackson @JackieWoodson @illuminatemics & more!
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/break-out-pen-america-virtual-20211215
#PENLitAwards judges hail from across the world and represent a wide range of disciplines, backgrounds, identities, and aesthetic lineages, and are award-winning writers themselves. Learn more about our 2022 judges here: https://bit.ly/3qy3ddU.
