The sentences that create us crafting a writer's life in prison
Offers a collection of essays that draw from the unique insights of over fifty justice-involved contributors and their allies to offer inspiration and resources for creating a literary life in prison. Centering in the philosophy that writers in prison can be as vibrant and capable as writers on the...
| Other Authors: | Meissner, Caits (Editor), Betts, Reginald Dwayne, 1980- (writer of foreword.) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Illinois :
Haymarket Books,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword /
- by Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Editor's note:
- How to read this book /
- by Caits Messner
- PEN prison writing: Then and now, in and out /
- by Susan Rosenberg
- Part one.
- Foundations of creative writing.
- On poetry /
- by Luis J. Rodriguez
- On fiction /
- by Ryan Gattis
- On nonfiction memoir /
- by Patrick O'Neil
- On dramatic theater /
- by Sarah Shourd
- On screenwriting /
- by Alexa Alemanni
- On graphic narrative /
- by Andy Warner
- On journalism /
- edited by Jaeah Lee, interviews and research by Kate Cammell
- A guide to grammar and punctuation /
- by Chris Daley
- After grammar: learning how to transition /
- by Emile DeWeaver
- Re-vision /
- by Mitchell S. Jackson
- Part two.
- Crafting a writer's life in prison.
- Introduction /
- by Caits Meissner with Elizabeth Hawes
- The price of remaining human /
- by Thomas Bartlett Whitaker
- The most important thing (and a few other rules) /
- by Curtis Dawkins
- On publishing from prison /
- by Saint James Harris Wood
- Copyright protection in brief /
- by Lateef Mtima, JD, and John R. Whitman, PhD
- Burn the spot: on writing about people you know /
- by Piper Kerman
- The power of grieving in words /
- by Vivian D. Nixon
- And still I write: creative expression for self-advocacy /
- by Alejo Rodriguez
- Every story needs hope: why you should write about prison /
- by Derek R. Trumbo Sr.
- Start and end with the feeling of home: how I developed my poetry manuscript /
- by Louise K. Waakaa'igan
- On writing and staging a play in prison /
- by Sterling Cunio
- Gift culture: on collaborating through the walls /
- by Spoon Jackson
- As for the rest of us: how to win a fellowship with no support /
- by Arthur Longworth
- "Prison writer": a meditation on histories and the sentences that create them /
- by Justin Rovillos Monson
- Part three.
- On building writing community.
- Introduction /
- by Caits Meissner
- On building prison writing communities /
- by Zeke Caligiuri
- Remix the plan, return to the purpose: how to center participant storytelling in writing workshops /
- by Nicole Shawn Junior
- No pen or paper required: the art and practice of community storytelling /
- by Casey Donahue
- Part four.
- Writing exercises.
- Translating to the page /
- by Doran Larson
- On using small stories to illuminate big issues /
- by Lauren Kessler
- Writing the poem of the moment /
- by Ellen Bass
- Attention to memory /
- by Jennifer Bowen
- The inherent magic of objects /
- by T Kira Mahealani Madden
- Apple is for identity and other prompts /
- by Anderson Smith
- Personifying location /
- by Johnny Kovatch
- A letter to my ancestors /
- by Raquel Almazan
- Imagining worlds: from page to stage /
- by Ashley Hamilton
- Workshop solitaire: using questions to strengthen a story /
- by J. D. Mathes
- Epilogue:
- A writing life in community
- from inside out /
- by Randall Horton.