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Invitation
to Write for Prisonersolidarity
Prisonersolidarity
(www.prisonersolidarity.org)
was founded in 2006 as a catalyst for communication between prisoners
and people on "the outside." The long-time prisoner advocates,
Staughton and Alice
Lynd, are part of the Youngstown Prison
Forum that inspired the forum. Wrongfully convicted death-row
inmate, Siddique
Abdullah Hasan, is also a co-founder of this initiative. Prisonersolidarity
runs a website and an email
discussion group, with the aim of creating an Ohio-wide and
international network of people who are concerned with prisoners'
rights and prison alternatives. In the past year we have co-sponsored
conferences and vigils. Our subscribers are a dynamic mix of former
prisoners, loved ones of prisoners, social activists, grassroots
media, and concerned members of the public. Prisonersolidarity publishes
recent news and research, and features original
essays and poems written by prisoners, family members, and activists.
Prisoners who write for us receive copies of their publication (and
other recently published essays), as well as feedback and letters
of support from readers (who are encouraged to write to them). Their
essays, in turn, help us to educate the
public about issues and concerns of interest to prisoners in
Ohio and across the United States. To subscribe to Prisonersolidarity,
send a blank email to: prisonersolidarity-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Submission
Guidelines
Submissions
should be no more than 2,000 words (roughly three typed or four
handwritten pages in length). We accept essays, poems and artwork
on philosophical, political and social topics that are of importance
to you. Published pieces are permanently
archived to our website and are circulated to an email
discussion list. We do not accept material that has been previously
published. We encourage our readers to write to inmate contributors.
However, we are not a pen pal service. Have something to say? Please
send your contribution to:
Prisonersolidarity.org, P.O. Box 422, The Plains, OH 45780
or email us: prisonersolidarity-owner@yahoogroups.com
Download
Submission Guidelines (Microsoft Word Format)
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