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Category: Fiction

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Kaleidoscope Reprise

by John CorleyJanuary 2, 2025December 30, 2024

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

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‘Resentment is not inevitable’

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

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

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Waiting.

by Lawson StricklandDecember 26, 2024December 27, 2024

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

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