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Nick Browning

Nick Browning was awarded first place in Essay in the 2020 Prison Writing Contest, honorable mention in the Edward Bunker Prize for Fiction in the 2020 PEN America Prison Writing Contest, and 3rd Place in Fiction in the 2021 PEN America Prison Writing Contest.

Browning is also featured in Breathe Into the Ground, the 2020 Prison Writing Awards Anthology and Visiting the Blues, the 2021 Prison Writing Awards Anthology.

Articles by Nick Browning

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Prison and Justice Writing
Monday March 22

A Funny Story

“Then it dawned on me: people didn’t care. I was, contrary to my firmly-held belief, not the center of the universe – my little Bildungsroman epiphany.”

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A black and white photo of a prison corridor with metal bars and cells on the right, and an empty hallway stretching into the distance on the left. The area is dimly lit, creating a stark and somber atmosphere.
Prison and Justice Writing
Monday November 16

Little Gardens

“The older I get the more constricting I find the hetero mask to be. Committing this to paper is, then, something of a coming-out party.”

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