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The sentences that create us : crafting a writer's life in prison /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, Illinois :
Haymarket Books,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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.