Abstract
The American Council of Learned Societies (with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities) worked with the Sustaining Public Engagement Grant to shore up public initiatives damaged by the pandemic. HISB, Herstory, and UBFSF worked together to create the interdisciplinary, university-community project “Writing Beyond the Prison.”
With support from the ACLS grant, a team of faculty and graduate students at SBU worked closely with UBFSF to edit over 100 manuscripts by incarcerated authors, a sampling of which is included in this special issue. These writings, and many more to come, will be preserved in an ever-expanding, open access “Living Archive” at Stony Brook University, where they are available for use by scholars, teachers, activists and policymakers. The ACLS grant also supported Herstory in adapting its unique, empathy-based memoir writing curriculum to an online format (Herstory Beyond Bars) for use in carceral settings behind and beyond bars. This online writing curriculum will nurture new writers, community organizers, and leaders. Our interactive website Writing Beyond the Prison places writings by incarcerated and system impacted individuals in cultural, historical, and pedagogical contexts.
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Chase, Robert; Miletsky, Zebulon; and Scheckel, Susan
(2024)
"Introduction to Writing Beyond the Prison, A Special Issue of Survive and Thrive,"
Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine: Vol. 9:
Iss.
4, Article 1.
Available at:
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol9/iss4/1