Keith Sanders

Keith Sanders is a playwright who has been incarcerated for over twenty-two years. In that time, he has earned Associates, Bachelors, and Masters degrees and won several writing awards. His one-act play, “Secret Sunshine,” was professionally staged and produced by Theatre Three of Port Jefferson, New York.


Articles by Keith Sanders

Prison and Justice Writing
Monday November 19

Little Sunshine

BETH: Dad storming around the house, demanding to know who let chickens into the house. (Mimicking her father as she takes the shaker from her mother) Chickens are food, not pets. We don’t eat dogs and cats do we? Where’re the rest of these foul birds? Do you smell that? It smells like— (Beth and her mother laugh) Dad was so funny—

Prison and Justice Writing
Thursday May 10

A Time to Forget

THE SETTING is the living room of an apartment filled, almost cluttered, with a mixture of modern and old-fashioned furniture—vases, lamps, bowls, small tables and cabinets containing all manner of china, gilded picture frames, and bric-a-brac, a mingling of chrome and glass and woods and fabrics. A grandfather clock stands off to the side but