Lawson Strickland, Author at The Lens

A prisoner studies vocabulary cards under a desk lamp in his cell, holding one card while other cards and an open book are spread across the desk.

Criminal Justice

Competing to be the best s-p-e-l-l-e-r inside Angola prison

by Lawson StricklandSeptember 12, 2025September 12, 2025

A buzzed-about spelling bee returns to the United States’ biggest maximum security prison.

Waiting.

by Lawson StricklandDecember 26, 2024December 27, 2024

This story was awarded the top PEN Prison Writing Award for fiction.