Anthologies

Afary, K. et al (eds.) (2019) Prison BA Journal Cal State LA

Andrews, F.E. and Dickens, A. (eds.) (1972) Voices from the Big House: A Collection of Fiction by Long Term Convicts Harlo Press

Arguelles, M. (ed.) (1995) Extracts from Pelican Bay: An Anthology of Prisoner Poetry, Drawings, and Essays Pentograph Press

Benavidez, M. and Mohr, B. (eds.) (1983) Hard Words, Short Time: Prison Writings from Chino L.A. Theatre Works

Benowitz, J. et al (eds.) (2000) Insiders’ Art: The Context Collection by Artists in Prison Context Project of Books Through Bars

Betts, R. (2019) Felon: Poems W.W. Norton & Company

Blackmore, J., Hendrix, J., Malyon, M. (eds.) (2019) When the Dust Rises: An Anthology by Mount Vernon Migrant Youth Underground Writing

Brandi, J. (ed.) (1985) Dog Blue Day: An Anthology of Writing from the Penitentiary of New Mexico Tooth of Time Books

Brisby, S. and Shepperd, W. (eds.) (1978) Born into a Felony: Access to the Society Within Pulpartforms

Bruchac, J. (ed.) (1984) Light From Another Country: Poetry from American Prisons Greenfield Review Press

Casella, J., Ridgeway, J., and Shourd, S. (eds.) (2017) Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement Elite

Captured Words/Free Thoughts, Volume 11 (2013)

Chevigny, B.G. (ed.) (1999) Doing Time: Twenty-Five Years of Prison Writing from the PEN Program Arcade Publishing

Colorado Women’s Correctional Facility Poetry Workshop (2010) Captured Words, Free Thoughts Volume 8

Daldorph, B. (ed.) (2010) Douglas County Jail Blues: Poetry from inmates at Douglas County Correctional Facility, Lawrence, Kansas 2001-2010 Coal City Press

Daldorph, B. (ed.) (2021) Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail University of Kansas Press

DeTar, C. Between the Bars: Human Stories from Prison The Center for Future Civic Media

Dowd, S. (ed.) (1996) This Prison Where I Live: The PEN Anthology of Imprisoned Writers Cassell Academic

Evans, J. (ed.) (2000) Undoing Time: American Prisoners in Their Own Words Northeastern University Press

Faith, K. (ed.) (1975) Soledad Prison, University of the Poor: An Exchange Between Students from the University of California at Santa Cruz and Prisoners at the Soledad Correctional Training Facility Science and Behavior Books

Folsom Prison (ed.) (1974) Echoes off the Walls: An Anthology of Literary Works: Volumes 1 and 2 The Fault

Folsom Prison (ed.) (1974) Poets and Writers in Folsom Prison Mother’s Hen

Franklin, H. B. (ed.) (1998) Prison Writings in 20th Century America Penguin

Guilloud, S. (ed.) (2001) Through the Eyes of the Judged: Autobiographical Sketches by Incarcerated Young Men Gateway Program, Evergreen State College

Hartnett, S. and Anderson, A. (ed.) (2020) Captured Words Free Thoughts: Writings From America’s Prisons University of Colorad0

Jones, H. (ed.) (1997) Aliens at the Border: Poems from the Writing Workshop at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Segue Books

Keller, W.R. et al (eds.) (1974) Strong Voices from Bedford Hills The Fault

Lamb, W. (ed.) (2004) Couldn’t Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution (Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters) Harper Perennial

Lamb, W. (ed.) (2008) I’ll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison Harper Perennial

Larson, D. (ed.) (2014) Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America MSU Press

Larson, D. (Principal Investigator) American Prison Writing Archive Digital Humanities Initiative

Leder, D. (2001) The Soul Knows No Bars: Inmates Reflect on Life, Death, and Hope Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Levi, R. and Waldman, A. (2011) Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons Voice of Witness

Levine, S. (ed.) (1972) Death Row: An Affirmation of Life New Glide Publishers

Lipscomb University students (eds.) (2011) Chiaroscuro 2011 LIFE Program

Maryland House of Corrections Writers Club (1986) For Colored Guys Who Have Gone Beyond Suicide and Found No Rainbow: A Choreopoem/Drama New Poets Series

Meissner-Chiriga, Caits (2020) Breathe into the Ground: 2020 Prison Writing Awards Anthology PEN America

Michelson, S. (ed.) (2017) Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention Settlement House

Minton, R.J. (ed.) (1971) Inside: Prison American Style: Essays, Poetry, and Prose from California prisons, including an original report by inmates on conditions at San Quentin Random House

Nagelsen, S. (ed.) (2008) Exiled Voices, Portals of Discovery: Stories, poems, and drama by imprisoned writers New England College

New Jersey Reentry Corporation (2021) The Journal of Women and Criminal Justice

New York Writers Coalition (ed.) (2009, 2011) Writing from Rosie’s, Diamonds in the Rough, Inside Out, I Lived. I Loved. I Learned.

PEN American and Meissner, C. (ed.) (2022) The Sentences that Create Us Haymarket Books

Perin, M. (ed.) (2006) Only the Dead Can Kill: Stories from Jail Community Works/West

Pollock, R. (ed.) (2019) As I Hear the Rain (PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology) PEN America

Prison Action News newsletter (2012) PAN Newsletter Letters and art from incarcerated people across the US

Prisoner Express (2018) Poetry Anthologies

Prison Renaissance Quarterly Journal

Redmond, M. and Bartlett, S. (eds.) (2013) Hear Me, See Me: Incarcerated Women Write, Orbis Books,

Rideau, W. and Wikberg, R. (1992) Life Sentences: Rage and Survival Behind Bars Times Books

Robert D. Clark Honors College (presenter) (2010) Turned Inside-Out: Literature, Art and Testimony from The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program

San Quentin Nine (2006) Brothers in Pen, (2007) Brothers in Pen: A Means of Escape, (2008) Brothers in Pen: Tragedy, Struggle, and Hope, (2011) Brothers in Pen: Six Cubic Feet,  (2014) Brothers in Pen: Stories from the Annual Public Reading , Kite 2: Zoe Mullery of Brothers in Pen (2019)

Scheffler, J. A. (ed.) (2002) Wall Tappings: Women’s Prison Writings, 200 A.D. to the Present The Feminist Press at CUNY

Simon, J. and Simon, L. (eds.) (1978) The Caged Collective: the Life and Death of the Folsom Prison Creative Writers’ Workshop Aldebaran Review

Sheehan, J. (ed.) (2005) Women Writing in Prison: An Anthology Voices From Inside

Spear, C. and Spear, J. (eds.) (1847) Voices from Prison: Being a Selection of Poetry from Various Prisoners, Written Within the Cell

Stanford, A.F. (1995-2005) Archives: Women, Writing, and Incarceration DePaul University

Train, S. (ed.) (2011) Imprisoned Passions SpeakOut! Journal

Vega, J.P. (ed.) (1988) Candles Burn in Memory Town: Poems from Both Sides of the Wall Segue Books

Vega, J.P. (ed.) (1996) No Boundaries: An Anthology of Poetry from Woodburne Correctional Facility Segue Books

Vega, J.P. (ed.) (1999) Under the Harvest Moon: An Anthology of Writing from Eastern Correctional Facility Segue Books

Viñas B., Bartlett S., and Tibbott K. (eds.) (2019) Life Lines: Re-Writing Lives from Inside Out Independent Publishers Group

Voices from Inside (eds.) (2011) Women Writing in Jail

Waldman, A., Levi, R., Alexander M. (eds.) (2017) Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons (Voice of Witness) Verso

Wagenheim, K. (ed.) (2009) Inside/Out: Voices from New Jersey State Prison Wingspan Press

William James Association Prison Arts Project (1980) About Time: Anthology of California Prison Writing Volumes I, II and III

Witherup, W. and Bruchac, J. (eds.) (1971) Words from the House of the Dead: An Anthology of Prison Writings from Soledad Greenfield Review Press

Words Uncaged and N. Fish (eds.) and Voices Unbarred (prod.) Man, I Wish We Would Have Known: Letters from Calipatria State Prison