Honoring Our Writers on Arkansas’ Death Row

Two of our writers have passed. Steven Wertz, who had his death sentence overturned and was incarcerated at Ouachita River Unit, died in early March 2025. Steven was a prolific writer and used writing as a way to free himself from prison walls. He was proud to have...

Prison Story Project Expands into Oklahoma!

Capitalizing on a connection with the League of Women Voters, which sponsors an array of book clubs in Oklahoma prisons, David Jolliffe, Regional Director of the Prison Story Project, has met with a group of incarcerated men called the Writers’ Guild at Joseph...