In Our Own Words: Writing From Parchman Prison

In Our Own Words is a collection of prison writing from Vox's Prison Writes Initiative (PWI). The program is a Creative Writing program set-up for Mississippi inmates, a first of its kind in the state. The stories in the book are from inmates of Parchman Farm, Mississippi's oldest and only maximum security prison. The book is edited by VOX's editor and program director of the PWI, the poet Louis Bourgeois.

• | Author: Louis E. Bourgeois
• | Publisher: Vox Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 03, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 140 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0980194407
• | ISBN-13: 9780980194401