An edition of The Sentences That Create Us
(2022)
The Sentences That Create Us
crafting a writer's life in prison
by Caits Meissner
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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.
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The Sentences That Create Us: crafting a writer's life in prison
2022, Haymarket Books
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Intro
Copyright
Contents
About PEN America
Foreword
Editor's Note: How to Read This Book
PEN Prison Writing: Then and Now, In and Out
Part I: Foundations of Creative Writing
On Poetry
On Fiction
On Nonfiction Memoir
On Dramatic Theater
On Screenwriting
On Graphic Narrative
On Journalism
The Prison Journalism Project's Quick Journalism Reference Guide
A Guide to Grammar and Punctuation
After Grammar: Learning How to Transition
Re-Vision
Part II: 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
Part III: 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
Part IV: 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
Further Reading
Further Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
Permissions
Index
Back Cover
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
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