Former Child Soldier Emmanuel Jal Visits Free Minds Reentry Book Club
“When you are in a poor environment, you go into survival mode. Like me, you’ve all been to hell. But you came back!” Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier of the…
Read MoreFree Minds at AWP Writer’s Conference
By Aubry Ellison, Free Minds Intern Every year, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) offers the largest literary conference in the nation with over 12,000 participants from across…
Read MoreA Classroom Full of Hope
Guest post by Karen Lausa, Executive Director of Words Beyond Bars and Friend of Free Minds We pulled into the parking lot of the M.V. Leckie Education Campus, the playground jammed…
Read MoreVarvie’s Story
Varvie was just shy of his 18th birthday when he was arrested, charged and convicted as an adult. He spent the next 11 ½ years in federal prisons across the…
Read MoreTacenda Literary Magazine Publishes Free Minds Poets
Now my hours feel longer, I’m just trying 2 make it 2 another spring That means goodbye winter, my days are getting warmer I’m getting older, my physical telling signs…
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