| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 325 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 -- |
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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 |
| Summary |
The Sentences That Create Us 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost platform, viewed September 25, 2023) |
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Prisoners as authors.
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Prisoners' writings, American.
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Prisoners -- Literary collections
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African American prisoners -- Literary collections
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Imprisonment -- Literary collections
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Prisons -- Literary collections
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Authorship -- Vocational guidance
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Rhetoric.
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rhetoric (discipline)
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Prisoners' writings, American
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Rhetoric
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Meissner, Caits, editor.
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Betts, Reginald Dwayne, 1980- writer of foreword.
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Meissner, Caits.
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Betts, Reginald Dwayne, 1980-
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PEN America, issuing body.
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| ISBN |
9781642596779 |
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1642596779 |
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