John Adams

John Adams was awarded an Honorable Mention in Nonfiction Memoir in the 2022 Prison Writing Contest for “Hating Daddy.”

John Adams was awarded an Honorable Mention in essay in the 2012 Prison Writing Contest.


Articles by John Adams

Wednesday September 7

Hating Daddy

John Adams was awarded an Honorable Mention in Nonfiction Memoir 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. Momma used to