Lives Being Rewritten

Recognized globally through its founder’s selection as a Top 5 CNN Hero and featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the Prison Writers Workshop has the most wide-ranging, on-the-ground writing program footprint in U.S. corrections, spanning five states.

The Prison Writers Workshop helps participants express themselves, build writing skills, and discover the power of their own life stories inside correctional facilities. The program remains rooted in the belief that writing builds literacy and improves self-regulation. We are a founder-led, volunteer-driven nonprofit.

MISSION
Improve the lives of those incarcerated through creative writing and expression

VISION
Formerly incarcerated individuals and those affected by crime can strengthen their communities as law-abiding citizens

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