Haymarket Publishes PEN America Anthology on Incarcerated Writing

Jan 25, 2022

Haymarket Books has released The Sentences that Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison by PEN America. The publication of the anthology will be supported by a $1.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to distribute 75,000 copies to prison libraries nationwide, as well as higher education and creative writing programs working with justice-involved communities. The book is also supported by grants from the California Arts Council and New Balloon/Catapult.

PEN America's Prison Writing Program was founded in 1971 to amplify the work of imprisoned writers. The Sentences that Create Us features work from such imprisoned or formerly imprisoned writers as Reginald Dwayne Betts, Curtis Dawkins, Ear Hustle, Piper Kerman, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Luis J. Rodriguez. 

Haymarket will host an online book launch event on February 1. 

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