Plenty of America’s talented writers published in newspapers and literary journals aren’t your typical authors — in fact, many of them are incarcerated in U.S. prisons.
As a published incarcerated writer myself, I yearn for the connection that writing creates between people, inside and out. In a place that takes so much and gives nothing back, it’s humanizing to be recognized for one’s merit outside the prison walls. But, too often I encounter publications demanding sensational content with shock value about events inside the prison walls.
