| Description |
xxv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographial references and index. |
| Summary |
Provides a roadmap for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars--and through walls--drawing on the unique insights of over 50 justice-involved contributors and their allies to offer advice, inspiration, and resources. |
| 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 I. 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 II: 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 III: 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 IV: 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. |
| Subject |
Prisoners' writings, American.
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Rhetoric.
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Prisoners' writings, American. (OCoLC)fst01077272
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Rhetoric. (OCoLC)fst01096948
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| Added Author |
Meissner, Caits, editor.
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Betts, Reginald Dwayne, 1980- writer of foreword.
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PEN America, issuing body.
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| ISBN |
9781642596540 hardcover |
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164259654X hardcover |
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9781642595802 paperback |
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1642595802 paperback |
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