The sentences that create us : crafting a writer's life in prison /
The sentences that create us : crafting a writer's life in prison /
edited by Caits Meissner ; foreword by Reginald Dwayne Betts ; PEN America.
- 1 online resource (xxv, 325 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Editor's note: How to read this book / PEN prison writing: Then and now, in and out / Foundations of Creative Writing. On poetry / On fiction / On nonfiction memoir / On dramatic theater / On screenwriting / On graphic narrative / On journalism / A guide to grammar and punctuation / After grammar : learning how to transition / Re-vision / Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison. Introduction / The price of remaining human / The most important thing (and a few other rules) / On publishing from prison / Copyright protection in brief / Burn the spot : on writing about people you know / The power of grieving in words / And still I write : creative expression for self-advocacy / Every story needs hope : why you should write about prison / Start and end with the feeling of home : how I developed my poetry manuscript / On writing and staging a play in prison / Gift culture : on collaborating through the walls / As for the rest of us : how to win a fellowship with no support / "Prison writer" : a meditation on histories and the sentences that create them / On Building Writing Community. Introduction / On building prison writing communities / Remix the plan, return to the purpose : how to center participant storytelling in writing workshops / No pen or paper required : the art and practice of community storytelling / Writing Exercises. Translating to the page / On using small stories to illuminate big issues / Writing the poem of the moment / Attention to memory / The inherent magic of objects / Apple is for identity and other prompts / Personifying location / A letter to my ancestors / Imagining worlds : from page to stage / Workshop solitaire : using questions to strengthen a story / Epilogue: A writing life in community -- from inside out / by Reginald Dwayne Betts -- by Caits Messner -- by Susan Rosenberg -- by Luis J. Rodriguez -- by Ryan Gattis -- by Patrick O'Neil -- by Sarah Shourd -- by Alexa Alemanni -- by Andy Warner -- edited by Jaeah Lee, interviews and research by Kate Cammell -- by Chris Daley -- by Emile DeWeaver -- by Mitchell S. Jackson -- by Caits Meissner with Elizabeth Hawes -- by Thomas Bartlett Whitaker -- by Curtis Dawkins -- by Saint James Harris Wood -- by Lateef Mtima, JD, and John R. Whitman, PhD -- by Piper Kerman -- by Vivian D. Nixon -- by Alejo Rodriguez -- by Derek R. Trumbo Sr. -- by Louise K. Waakaa'igan -- by Sterling Cunio -- by Spoon Jackson -- by Arthur Longworth -- by Justin Rovillos Monson -- by Caits Meissner -- by Zeke Caligiuri -- by Nicole Shawn Junior -- by Casey Donahue -- by Doran Larson -- by Lauren Kessler -- by Ellen Bass -- by Jennifer Bowen -- by T Kira Mahealani Madden -- by Anderson Smith -- by Johnny Kovatch -- by Raquel Almazan -- by Ashley Hamilton -- by J. D. Mathes -- by Randall Horton. Part I. Part II: Part III: Part IV:
Electronic reproduction.
Ipswich, MA
Available via World Wide Web.
9781642596779 (electronic bk.) 1642596779 (electronic bk.)
Prisoners' writings, American.
Prisoners--Literary collections.
African American prisoners--Literary collections.
Imprisonment--Literary collections.
Prisons--Literary collections.
Rhetoric.
PS508.P7 / S46 2022
810.8/09206927 808.0086927
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Editor's note: How to read this book / PEN prison writing: Then and now, in and out / Foundations of Creative Writing. On poetry / On fiction / On nonfiction memoir / On dramatic theater / On screenwriting / On graphic narrative / On journalism / A guide to grammar and punctuation / After grammar : learning how to transition / Re-vision / Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison. Introduction / The price of remaining human / The most important thing (and a few other rules) / On publishing from prison / Copyright protection in brief / Burn the spot : on writing about people you know / The power of grieving in words / And still I write : creative expression for self-advocacy / Every story needs hope : why you should write about prison / Start and end with the feeling of home : how I developed my poetry manuscript / On writing and staging a play in prison / Gift culture : on collaborating through the walls / As for the rest of us : how to win a fellowship with no support / "Prison writer" : a meditation on histories and the sentences that create them / On Building Writing Community. Introduction / On building prison writing communities / Remix the plan, return to the purpose : how to center participant storytelling in writing workshops / No pen or paper required : the art and practice of community storytelling / Writing Exercises. Translating to the page / On using small stories to illuminate big issues / Writing the poem of the moment / Attention to memory / The inherent magic of objects / Apple is for identity and other prompts / Personifying location / A letter to my ancestors / Imagining worlds : from page to stage / Workshop solitaire : using questions to strengthen a story / Epilogue: A writing life in community -- from inside out / by Reginald Dwayne Betts -- by Caits Messner -- by Susan Rosenberg -- by Luis J. Rodriguez -- by Ryan Gattis -- by Patrick O'Neil -- by Sarah Shourd -- by Alexa Alemanni -- by Andy Warner -- edited by Jaeah Lee, interviews and research by Kate Cammell -- by Chris Daley -- by Emile DeWeaver -- by Mitchell S. Jackson -- by Caits Meissner with Elizabeth Hawes -- by Thomas Bartlett Whitaker -- by Curtis Dawkins -- by Saint James Harris Wood -- by Lateef Mtima, JD, and John R. Whitman, PhD -- by Piper Kerman -- by Vivian D. Nixon -- by Alejo Rodriguez -- by Derek R. Trumbo Sr. -- by Louise K. Waakaa'igan -- by Sterling Cunio -- by Spoon Jackson -- by Arthur Longworth -- by Justin Rovillos Monson -- by Caits Meissner -- by Zeke Caligiuri -- by Nicole Shawn Junior -- by Casey Donahue -- by Doran Larson -- by Lauren Kessler -- by Ellen Bass -- by Jennifer Bowen -- by T Kira Mahealani Madden -- by Anderson Smith -- by Johnny Kovatch -- by Raquel Almazan -- by Ashley Hamilton -- by J. D. Mathes -- by Randall Horton. Part I. Part II: Part III: Part IV:
Electronic reproduction.
Ipswich, MA
Available via World Wide Web.
9781642596779 (electronic bk.) 1642596779 (electronic bk.)
Prisoners' writings, American.
Prisoners--Literary collections.
African American prisoners--Literary collections.
Imprisonment--Literary collections.
Prisons--Literary collections.
Rhetoric.
PS508.P7 / S46 2022
810.8/09206927 808.0086927