Introduction to playwriting – Synergy Theatre
Synergy Theatre are inviting people with experience of the criminal justice system to take part in a free playwriting course.
No Bars’ online creative space
The No Bars project is inviting creatives with experience of the criminal justice system to join them online for creative writing, chat and networking.
Voices from prison: e-book and short film from Clean Break
A new e-book from Clean Break features creative writing pieces by women from prisons across England and Wales.
Making It Up: parents in prison connecting through stories
Give a Book workshop leader David Kendall joins us in this guest blog to share the importance of storytelling and how, over lockdown, the project has been keeping prisoners connected [...]
Creative writing at HMP Guys Marsh
Ella Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Bath Spa University, writes about her experience coordinating a creative writing course last year at HMP Guys Marsh. She shares an extract from [...]
BBC feature on creative writing in prisons
Carlo Gebler has spent nearly three decades working in the Northern Ireland prison system as a teacher of creative writing. Produced by Conor Garrett for BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Radio […]