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Start Over Date range 2018 Subjects Prisoners -- Literary collections

Appalachian Prison Book Project Book Club Writings .1 Linear Feet 1/2 in. (2 items in 1 folder)

Appalachian Prison Book Project Book Club at FCI Hazelton

Publications of works by incarcerated members of book clubs facilitated by the Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP). Includes one copy of Holding onto Sand, a collection of writings by the incarcerated members of the APBP Book Club at FCI Hazelton, a men's medium security federal prison in Preston County, West Virginia. Beginning in June of 2016, four APBP volunteers facilitated a book club that met inside the men's medium security federal prison; this publication contains the club members' works through May of 2018. Also includes one copy of Women of Wisdom: Writing by the Women's Book Club at Hazelton, the first collection of writings and artwork by the incarcerated members of the Women of Wisdom Book Club, an APBP-facilitated book club at the Secure Female Facility at FCI Hazelton. Started in October 2014, this group continues to meet every other week (as of January 2019).

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Creative Writing Magazine Entitled "Conversations Through the Fence" .01 Linear Feet 1 item (1 folder) 0.002 Gigabytes 1 .pdf file

FCI Hazelton Think Tank

Conversations Through the Fence, a creative writing magazine born out of the work of the fall 2017 Inside Out class English 275: Justice and Literature, held at FCI Hazelton, taught by Dr. Katy Ryan, professor of English at West Virginia University. Description of the creation of the magazine is included in issue 1. Contains a PDF and a printout of issue 1.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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