Other Things Unspoken: 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards Anthology

Other Things Unspoken: 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards Anthology features the work of Kenneth Andrus, Jeanne Anne-Marie Bossier, Jason Ray Bouchard, R. “Ya’iyr” Carter, Victor Chunga, John Corley, Matthew Feeney, Aaron Flaherty, J.D. Frandsen, Alex Friedmann, Paula Grieve, Elizabeth Hawes, L.T. Henning, Robert Hiraeth, Donald Hoyt, Edward Ji, Sara G. Kielly, Peter Nathaniel Malae, Michael Dewayne McCoy, Michelle McCutchen, Ken Meyers, David Morrison, John Quanrude, Joshua Daniel Peterson, Geneva Phillips, Christopher Presfield, Albert Ramos, Cody Reno, Tray (Deuce) Robinson, Pamela A. Smart, Lawson Strickland, and Derek R. Trumbo, Sr. Cover art by Tommy Trantino.

Initiated in the wake of the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program strives to bridge access to literary community for writers working under strict conditions of surveillance and censorship in carceral facilities across the United States. Its founding initiative, the PEN Prison Writing Awards, receives hundreds of submissions annually in the categories of Poetry, Fiction, Essay, Memoir, and Drama. Winners receive a cash prize, publication in an anthology series, and the opportunity to participate in the Prison Writing Mentorship Program.