Image by NASA
Dear readers, writers and friends,
March arrives and with it new horizons. We are propelling you into space with this incredible image from NASA and a line-up of truly special writers.
This month’s leads transport us from space to the places many never go, inside one of the most difficult environments the UK can imagine. These never-before-published writers have devised these pieces in workshops conducted inside one of the UK’s high security prisons.
Half of the writers are students at Cambridge University, and half are men who have been incarcerated, some for many years. They are all participants in Writing Together, part of a programme called Learning Together (https://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/tlif/learning-together/details) , which is run by the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge.
The group has been working together for a while, learning the basics of fiction, poetry and script writing; but this was the first time they had written to an image, within a set amount of time and word limit, and asked to hand that work in. It was typed up on the outside and now, here it is.
These writers are published anonymously but each is celebrated for their individual creativity and unique response to this image.
So writers – with stars in your eyes; with the memory of your childhood wish to walk on the moon; with a sense of connection or of isolation; with a yearning for freedom or missing a loved one – go forth. The image is the starting point, the text is up to you.
Preti, Kristen, Lucie, Rithika and Luke
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