The Sentences That Create Us
Subtitle: crafting a writer's life in prison
Contributors: Betts, Reginald Dwayne, 1980-
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781642596779
Subjects: Rhetoric; Prisoners' writings, American; Rhétorique; Écrits de prisonniers américains
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Copyright; title: Contents; title: About PEN America; title: Foreword; title: Editor's Note: How to Read This Book; title: PEN Prison Writing: Then and Now, In and Out; title: Part I: Foundations of Creative Writing; title: On Poetry; title: On Fiction; title: On Nonfiction Memoir; title: On Dramatic Theater; title: On Screenwriting; title: On Graphic Narrative; title: On Journalism; title: The Prison Journalism Project's Quick Journalism Reference Guide; title: A Guide to Grammar and Punctuation; title: After Grammar: Learning How to Transition; title: Re-Vision; title: Part II: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison; title: Introduction; title: The Price of Remaining Human; title: The Most Important Thing (and a Few Other Rules); title: On Publishing from Prison; title: Copyright Protection in Brief; title: Burn the Spot: On Writing about People You Know; title: The Power of Grieving in Words; title: And Still I Write: Creative Expression for Self-Advocacy; title: Every Story Needs Hope: Why You Should Write about Prison; title: Start and End with the Feeling of Home: How I Developed My Poetry Manuscript; title: On Writing and Staging a Play in Prison; title: Gift Culture: On Collaborating through the Walls; title: As for the Rest of Us: How to Win a Fellowship with No Support; title: "Prison Writer": A Meditation on Histories and the Sentences that Create Them; title: Part III: On Building Writing Community; title: Introduction; title: On Building Prison Writing Communities; title: Remix the Plan, Return to the Purpose: How to Center Participant Storytelling in Writing Workshops; title: No Pen or Paper Required: The Art and Practice of Community Storytelling; title: Part IV: Writing Exercises; title: Translating to the Page; title: On Using Small Stories to Illuminate Big Issues; title: Writing the Poem of the Moment; title: Attention to Memory; title: The Inherent Magic of Objects; title: Apple Is for Identity and Other Prompts; title: Personifying Location; title: A Letter to My Ancestors; title: Imagining Worlds: From Page to Stage; title: Workshop Solitaire: Using Questions to Strengthen a Story; title: Epilogue: A Writing Life in Community-from Inside Out; title: Further Reading; title: Further Resources; title: Acknowledgments; title: About the Contributors; title: Permissions; title: Index; title: Back Cover