Writer Wednesday

Good morning, Prosers,

We’d like to introduce you to a new weekly feature, Writer Wednesday.

This feature focuses on the wonderful words coming from our Letters from Prison contributors. Some of you may not be aware of this initiative yet, but by the end of this post you will be!

Each and every Wednesday, Sammie and Paul visit prison and teach creative writing to the residents there. We then bring their words to Prose and post them in the Letters from Prison Portal where members of the Prose community comment on them, providing much needed support and feedback which we then take back into prison and share with the residents.

This program has provided the inmates with a much needed release whilst improving their spelling, grammar, self-confidence, and has had a profound effect on their mental health, too.

This new weekly feature is to celebrate some of the cracking words that escape the bars and make their way onto Prose.

From the start I should have knew

That your comfort wasn’t true

I’d engaged in a war that I couldn’t win

And I carried your plague like a heartless sin

~@lowerWESTLEY

From: Alice In Wonderland

You have your own will, I will ruin it

I am not the needle, I am the poison inside

~@Carmen

From: Satan’s Twin

The fear of the abyss

Makes all of my bodily fluids

That’s rancid, run down my leg

~@Squeakypeewee01

From: The Abyss

If you like what you read here, we encourage you to check out the Portal, get commenting and supporting this amazing program.

Until next Wednesday, Prosers,

Prose.