Doing time
twenty-five years of prison writing
by Bell Gale Chevigny
"Doing Time," For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity.
For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. The contest honors the best short stories, plays, essays, and poems among hundreds submitted annually by men and women nationwide.
Bell Chevigny, a writer herself and a former prison teacher, has selected the best of these to create Doing Time - a timely, beautiful, sometimes devastating, but vital work, which demonstrates resoundingly that prison writing is a vibrant branch of American literature.
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Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing
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Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing-A PEN American Center Prize Anthology
March 8, 2000, Arcade Publishing
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Doing time: twenty-five years of prison writing
1999, Arcade Pub., Distributed by Time Warner Trade Pub.
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Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing-A PEN American Center Prize Anthology
May 20, 1999, Arcade Publishing
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-324).
"A PEN American Center prize anthology."
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