Community Spotlight: Zoe Mullery & Brothers in Pen

04/22/19 • 51 min

Zoe Mullery has been the creative writing teacher of Brothers in Pen at San Quentin Prison since 1999. This writing group has produced eight anthologies of:”fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, or some hybrid.” She joins Matt and Alvin in the studio to discuss truth/facts, the purpose of humans in community, generosity and story, and the gift of listening inward in a world of posturing and ego.The class exists because of the big vision and the big heart of the William James Association (WJA) and its Executive Director Laurie Brooks. WJA sponsors the Prison Arts Project at San Quentin State Prison and many other prisons throughout California. The Prison Arts Project is implemented at San Quentin by WJA Program Manager Carol Newborg, San Quentin Community Partnership Manager Steve Emrick, and Public Information Officer Lt. Sam Robinson. williamjamesassociation.orgBrothers in Pen has a website with occasional news, information on many of the writers, and links to purchase anthologies: brothersinpen.wordpress.com. You can contact Brothers in Pen at [email protected]: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying details of the students we work with.Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in Northern Washington through literary engagement and personal restoration.

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Previous Episode

Dear America

We continue exploring the DEAR AMERICA prompt from our site at the Skagit County Community Justice Center: ideas of balance and counter-balance, frustration and allure.

Matt shares updates from a satellite program on the east coast, The Change: a book pipeline to—among other sites—the library at Green Hill School in Chehalis, WA, and a teaser for our next Community Spotlight episode.

Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying details of the students we work with.

LINKS OF INTEREST:

What No One Ever Tells You
Langston Hughes
Skagit County Community Justice Center
Washington States Arts Commission (ArtsWA)
One Year Writing in the Margins
The Change - Book Pipeline

Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in Northern Washington through literary engagement and personal restoration.

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Next Episode

Kite 1

Kite: a. a note passed from an inmate to an inmate in another cell or to a guard b. Underground Writing’s audio zine featuring student writingThis episode features twelve pieces of writing from the Skagit County Community Justice Center, read by Matt Malyon. I’m Cold and the Temperature Doesn’t Change. Pancho. After the First Lightning, Where Does the Rain Go? Zachary.206. Zachary.I Will Ask Your Permission. Victor. After Sherman Alexie’s After the First Lightning. I Will Ask For Your Ear. Scripted Verses. After Sheman Alexie’s After the First Lightning. The Old Man. Mario. After Adélia Prado’s Lesson. Alcoholism. Mario. A Day So Happy. Mario. After Czeslaw Milosz’s A Gift. I Want My Story to Be About You. Jeff. After Sherman Alexie’s After the First Lightning.I Flirt With the Idea. Jeff. It Was a Shadowy Yard. Anonymous. After Adélia Prado’s Lesson. I Started This Week Thinking I Was Going to Get Out Today. Anonymous.

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