by Prison Story Project | Mar 20, 2019 | News
The Prison Story Project will begin its summer tour of “On The Row” June, 2019 thanks to generous grant from Mid-America Arts Alliance with matching funds from Episcopal Evangelism Society and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The cities and dates have been finalized, and...
by Prison Story Project | Mar 20, 2019 | News
Geffrey Davis, University of Arkansas professor and Prison Story Project Writer in Residence and Education Advocacy Director, has won a $50,000 Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship to support public engagement by humanities faculty. This award will allow the Prison...
by Prison Story Project | Mar 19, 2019 | News
Story by Matt Henriksen I had been making art all my life when I started teaching for the Prison Story Project in 2014 and learned that art has the power to heal. Somehow I had written poems for over thirty years without acknowledging what I was after, but the...
by Prison Story Project | Jan 12, 2019 | Writing
I Was Trying To Describe You…(compilation of responses about lovers based on a prompt give to women incarcerated at Northwest Arkansas Community Correction Center) “I was trying to describe you to someone recently… How it felt to be with a man like...
by Prison Story Project | Jan 12, 2019 | Writing
These writings were from eight women incarcerated at NWACC in 2016. The prison does not allow us to use their real names. They chose the following pseudonyms: “Jake”, “Sunnie”, “Tink”, “Hope Cobain”,...
