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Kaleidoscope Reprise

This poem received second prize for poetry in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.

by John Corley January 2, 2025 Updated December 30, 2024

‘Resentment is not inevitable’

"I am not a person who came to prison and became a writer, I am a writer who happened to come to prison."

by Lawson Strickland, winner of the PEN Prison Writing Award for Fiction, as interviewed by Nick Chrastil, The Lens December 26, 2024 Updated December 26, 2024

Waiting.

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

by Lawson Strickland December 26, 2024 Updated December 27, 2024