Artistic & Creative Writing Resources

12200 Road 41.9, Mancos CO 81328 / E-mail: publisher [at] celldoor [dot] com / Website: www.celldoor.com
The Cell Door Magazine is written for a free audience by prisoners or people who are family members or friends of prisoners. Our goal is to develop an audience who reads The Cell Door Magazine for its educational and entertainment value and quality, learning in the process that prisoners are intelligent, personable, talented human beings. We will definitely consider all submissions. We publish art, poetry, essays, news, opinion, fiction, humor, and inmate cases.

Attn: Gassho, 1167-C Zonolite Place, Atlanta GA 30306 / Website: www.aszc.org
The Gassho newsletter is a free publication created by and written for incarcerated sangha practitioners. Articles discuss prison life and the practice of Buddhism for those serving time. Each issue is produced in conjunction with the Atlanta Soto Zen Center. You may write and request to be on the mailing list. Also, we welcome questions, articles, artwork, etc. from prisoners for publication

Pen American Center, 588 Broadway Suite 303, New York NY 10012 / Tel: (212) 334-1660 / E-mail: pen [at] pen [dot] org / Website: www.pen.org
Upon request, we will send inmates, free of charge, a short guide offering information on creative writing, places to send your work, how to write a cover letter, and it also includes a list of organizations that provide pen pals. In additions, upon request, we send a free guide for starting your own writing workshops in prison. We also sponsor an annual writing contest for prisoners.

275 Ninth St, San Francisco CA 94103 / Tel: (415) 503-4170 / Website: www.pacificnews.org/yo/beat
Our Beat contributors, most of whom are in the system, from death row to county jail, to various youth facilities, as well as some of whom are now in the free world, are in a unique position to express themselves and realize they are not alone. Through their writings and art, they discover that they are a part of a larger community. Furthermore, their voices reach, touch, and hopefully influence the lives of judges, probation officers, families, community workers, youth, and many others. Our purpose is to educate readers inside and outside of the system. This is why we challenge our writers to think as teachers as they reflect on their pasts and look ahead. Prisoners may send commentaries, artwork, and poetry, directed towards teaching, inspiring, and giving hope. Prisoners may receive a free subscription, donations are appreciated.

Subscription Requests and Submissions: Journal of Prisoners on Prisons c/o University of Ottowa Press 542 King Edward, Ottowa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada / Tel: (613) 562-5246 / E-mail: jpp [at] uottawa [dot] ca / Website: www.jpg.org
The Journal or Prisoners on Prisons is a unique forum for the voices of prisoners everywhere. Drawing on writing from prisoners across the world, the JPP allows those most knowledgeable about the realities of prison life and most closely affected by those realities to speak out. The JPP brings us the passionate, articulate voices not previously heard in the ongoing debates about penology, prison abolition and prisoners' rights. Creative writing, personal stories, artwork, academic, and legal arguments, contribute their perspective to a wide range of contemporary issues related to crime, justice and punishment. Published annually. Submissions: Prisoners and former prisoners are encouraged to submit papers, collaborate essays, discussions transcribed from tape, book reviews, and photo or graphic essays (no fiction or poetry). We publish articles in either French or English.