As the founder of Indiana Prison Writers Workshop, I go into Indiana correctional facilities each week to facilitate a creative writing workshop.
The workshop, I would argue, allows my students to experience a therapeutic avenue for expression. Writing can encourage us to explore our emotional states and can cultivate more critical self-awareness and critical thinking. Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Feeding the Roots of Self Expression and Freedom is an inspiring curriculum-based collection of lesson plans designed to build confidence.
A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric