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Sean J. White

Sean J. White arrived to prison in 1997 at the age of nineteen. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals, most recently Xanadu, Natural Bridge, and Connecticut River Review. He has previously won awards from PEN American Center’s Writing Awards for Prisoners, honorable mention for poetry in 2013 and second place for drama in 2014. He is a fine artist as well as writer.

Winner, 2022 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – Fielding Dawson Prize in Drama for “T-Minus.“

Articles by Sean J. White

Prison and Justice Writing

Wednesday September 7

T-Minus

Sean White was awarded the Fielding Dawson Prize in Drama 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. CHARACTERS: EDDIE BERMAN–in

Prison and Justice Writing

Monday March 22

The Law of Averages

A blind covers the window, though sunlight pokes in to the almost empty room through open corners. A couple plastic laundry baskets hold unfolded clothes, and several cardboard boxes, full of this and that, are arranged somewhat like furniture.

Prison and Justice Writing

Monday August 6

Discovery after twenty years in prison

“Sometimes I fear / I might be / A sociopath / I have such / A propensity / For violence”