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Women Writing in Prison is an anthology of writings edited by Jacqueline Sheehan.
Books can be purchased for $17 each, plus $3 for shipping and handling. To order anthologies, go to the Voices
from Inside website.
Jacqueline
helped to run writing groups for women in prison for over a year and a
half with Voice From Inside (VFI), a volunteer advocacy group. VFI has
run writing groups for over eight years. In 2005, VFI asked Jacqueline
to be the editor for their first anthology, Women Writing in Prison.
The anthology offers a selection of raw poetry and prose written by 95
women prisoners. This new volume reaches out to the larger community,
promoting a deeper understanding of the human experience of
incarceration.
"Through creative writing
workshops and public readings, Voices from Inside empowers women who
have been incarcerated to find their voice and to return to their
communities." - VFI
“I was profoundly
struck by the variety of the women’s backgrounds, the courage and
humanity of their stories, and the dignity and power of their voices.
They need to be heard, and we on the outside need to hear them.” Ellen Dore Watson, director of the Poetry Center at Smith College.
“If
courage is grace under pressure, then these poems are graceful
expressions under the real pressures of confinement. Poetry’s acclaimed
power to liberate is vividly exemplified in Women Writing in Prison;
each poem is at once a private act of escape and confrontation.” Billy Collins, New York Poet Laureate, former U.S. Poet Laureate.
Books can be purchased for $17 each, plus $3 for shipping and handling. To order anthologies, go to the Voices from Inside website.
All profits from the sale of Women Writing in Prison support Voices From Inside’s writing groups for incarcerated women.
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Women Writing in Prison is an anthology of writings edited by Jacqueline Sheehan. Books can be purchased for $17 each, plus $3 for shipping and handling. To order anthologies, go to the Voices from Inside website. |
Jacqueline helped to run writing groups for women in prison for over a year and a half with Voice From Inside (VFI), a volunteer advocacy group. VFI has run writing groups for over eight years. In 2005, VFI asked Jacqueline to be the editor for their first anthology, Women Writing in Prison. The anthology offers a selection of raw poetry and prose written by 95 women prisoners. This new volume reaches out to the larger community, promoting a deeper understanding of the human experience of incarceration.
"Through creative writing workshops and public readings, Voices from Inside empowers women who have been incarcerated to find their voice and to return to their communities." - VFI
“I was profoundly struck by the variety of the women’s backgrounds, the courage and humanity of their stories, and the dignity and power of their voices. They need to be heard, and we on the outside need to hear them.” Ellen Dore Watson, director of the Poetry Center at Smith College.
“If courage is grace under pressure, then these poems are graceful expressions under the real pressures of confinement. Poetry’s acclaimed power to liberate is vividly exemplified in Women Writing in Prison; each poem is at once a private act of escape and confrontation.” Billy Collins, New York Poet Laureate, former U.S. Poet Laureate.
Books can be purchased for $17 each, plus $3 for shipping and handling. To order anthologies, go to the Voices from Inside website.
All profits from the sale of Women Writing in Prison support Voices From Inside’s writing groups for incarcerated women.