Resources for Writers in Prison

CALIFORNIA PRISON FOCUS
2940 16th Street, Room 307
San Francisco, CA 94103
Human rights group publishes prisoner’s stories, poetry, exposés, etc.

PEN AMERICAN CENTER
Prison Writing Program
568 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
Provides information on writing and publishing, sponsors annual prison writing awards. Please send copies, not original manuscripts.

THE POET’S WORKSHOP
c/o Dennis Angell
St. Louis County Jail
4334 Haines Road
Duluth, MN 55811
Publishes Call of the Loon, a monthly magazine including poetry by prisoners.

SOUTH CHICAGO ABC ZINE
PO Box 721
Homewood, IL 60430
Midwest chapter of the Political Prisoners of War Coalition. Compiles and distributes zines of prisoners’ writings.




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