Writing Magazine

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The Create the Future Climate Writing Competition is an international competition for eco-fiction inviting entries of any kind of creative writing. Entries may be fiction, poetry, creative essays or any other kind of creative writing that answers one

The Marshall Project

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At a Kentucky prison, officers learn about the inmate experience through a “re-entry to society” simulation game.

Writing Magazine

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Enter short fiction up to 3,000 words to win a £1,000 prize in the Creative Ink Short Story Competition 2022, for original, unpublished stories in any style or form from writers worldwide. The winner will receive £1,000, a Creative Writing Ink online

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES —A California inmate is suspected of killing his cellmate in a Kern County prison this week, authorities said. Scott Gunter, 59, was found unresponsive in his cell at Wasco State Prison around 5 p.m. Tuesday and was pronounced dead 34 min

Powder

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By Clare Menzel Allan Haber spent his first ski season in Upstate New York. He was 28 years old. He didn’t ski at Whiteface, or Hunter Mountain, or in the backcountry, or anywhere else you’d recognize, unless you were also a convicted felon. As a you

Powder

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Allan Haber spent his first ski season in Upstate New York. He was 28 years old. He didn’t ski at Whiteface, or Hunter Mountain, or in the backcountry, or anywhere else you’d recognize, unless you were also a convicted felon. As a young man, Haber de

Total Film

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OUT 3 APRIL Inside a jail in Richmond, Virginia, hip-hop artist Todd ‘Speech’ Thomas works with a handful of inmates looking to unlock their musical potential as a way of aiding their rehabilitation and, perhaps, redemption. Sam Bathrick’s cracking d

Writing Magazine

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The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2022 is inviting entries on this years’ theme, which is ‘Freedom’, with the chance to win a £10,000 first prize. Submissions for the annual, international Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize may be prose, poetry or non

The Paris Review

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In our eight-part series Life Sentence, the literary critic Jeff Dolven takes apart and puts back together one beloved or bedeviling sentence each week. Artist Tom Toro illustrates each sentence Dolven chooses. © Tom Toro Americans are particularly b

Writing Magazine

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Black Lawrence Press is a US indie publishing contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The editorial team find their authors through annual contests and open reading periods. They seek ‘innovative, electrifying, and thoroughly intoxicat

NPR

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The politics of raising the age in New York State are complicated: both liberals and conservatives broadly support raising the age in principle, but question the governor's proposal.

The Independent

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Usman Khan appeared to be a model prisoner. After being jailed for his part in an al-Qaeda-inspired bomb plot in 2012, he had ticked all the boxes required for terror offenders. He had been through a prison counter-extremism programme and separate sc

Writing Magazine

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Hotazel Review, a journal of art and literature for Africa and the world, is inviting international submissions of poetry (up to four poems), short fiction and creative non-fiction (1,000 to 3,000 words). The closing date is 15 December. Website: htt

NPR

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And hours before his scheduled execution, lawyers for death-row inmate Kenneth Williams continued to try to stop it in court. He is the fourth and final inmate scheduled to die in Arkansas this month.

Mother Jones

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ON THE MORNING of his 47th birthday, his first outside prison in three decades, Antonio Espree wakes up around 5 a.m. It’s a cool February day in Phoenix, still dark outside, and his cousin Marlon Bailey is asleep on a bed about an arm’s reach away.

Chat

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The jurors at Long Beach Superior Court deliberated for just over two hours. They found Edward Jacobs, 32, guilty of the first-degree murder of Guy Alford III. Jacobs, previously convicted of robbery and attempted robbery, had already been in custody

Writing Magazine

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Brick is a Canadian international literary journal published twice a year. The editorial team like to publish ‘invigorating and challenging literary essays, interviews, memoirs, travelogues, belles lettres, and unusual musings’. Note, no fiction. Thi

Popshot Magazine

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8 – Holly Kybett Smith is a writer from Portsmouth. Her work has previously appeared in the New Gothic Review. You can find her on twitter @h_kybettsmith. 10 – Elizabeth Gibson is a Manchesterbased poet and performer inspired by the city, nature and

The Marshall Project

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There isn't much that we can do here in a Level 5 maximum-security prison—which is where they send us unmanageable inmates, to seclude us even further. So I write, read, watch TV and occasionally look out my window, watching the prisoners from the ot

Wild West

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The cornerstone for Wyoming’s first state prison was laid in Rawlins in 1888, a full two years before the territory gained statehood. But given the often inclement weather, funding issues and government bureaucracy (some things never change), the fac

TV Soap

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Life hasn’t been kind to the lovable Boomer in recent months. Instead of winning her parole and going free, she’s remained incarcerated for euthanasing Liz. Although she’s gained a sense of satisfaction operating as Allie’s second-in-command, happine

Artist Profile

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Publisher JOHN FEITELSON Editor KON GOURIOTIS OAM Art Director KIM GREGORY Deputy Editor and Sub-editor ELLI WALSH National Advertising Manager JILL TROCHEI Distribution and Subscription Manager BEN LOPES Distribution Officer CHARLI POPE Illustrator

NPR

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Organizers say the demonstrations, which are expected to include hunger strikes and a refusal to work, are in response to a riot at a South Carolina prison in which seven inmates died.

Lifestyle Asia

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In middle school, among many friends whose homes made an impression, the house of a classmate, Betina, was one that is always remembered. From memory, the house was a minimalist, high-concept dwelling, with art pieces that stood out in sharp relief.

Writing Magazine

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Win £100 in each category for writing on a medical theme in the Society of Medical Writers Prose and Poetry Competition. The biannual competition from the Society of Medical Writers invites entries of fiction and non-fiction between 1,000 and 2,500 w

Los Angeles Times

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Five immigrants with criminal records who face possible deportation were pardoned by California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday, continuing his tradition of granting clemency around the Easter holiday. The five individuals were among

Writing Magazine

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The first Fiction Factory Poetry Competition is for original, unpublished poems on any subject, up to 40 lines. One winner will receive £100, feedback on five poems and an hour-long Zoom mentoring session with judge Helen Cox. Five shortlisted poets

Los Angeles Times

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Tammy Jackson gave birth to her daughter alone, with no doctor, nurse or midwife present to assist or even offer comfort. There were people nearby who heard Jackson's screams and even watched her long night of agony through the glass; but they could

Who Do You Think You Are?

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Sometimes the description will include the names of any victims (if applicable). Details sometimes changed during imprisonment. Convicts might learn to read or write, or they might change their religion to improve conditions. Convicts might be sent t

Writing Magazine

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The Parracombe Prize 2022 invites entries of original, unpublished short stories, up to 2022 words. Each writer may enter up to three. Prizes are £100, £50 and two £25 runners-up, plus publication in the Parracombe Prize 2022 anthology. The entry fee