CREATIVE WRITING
The Creative Writing Gallery includes writing entries and winners from our detention center writing contests as well as stories written as part of our other creative writing programs with our other program partners. The stories are published as originally written, with minor edits as needed for clarity. We hope you enjoy reading these stories from our clients, and thank you for helping them to be heard!
Each artist whose work is posted on our site has signed a Heard media release or verbally given permission for the work to be posted on this site and shared via our social media platforms.
Two is better than one?
Ricky Turcios First place, fiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention Center writing contest,...
Stressfull Life
Cornelius Jones Nonfiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility writing contest, August 2021...
I Use to Dream
R. Goss Second place, Nonfiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility writing...
Girl Dad
Lewis Rose Nonfiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility writing contest, August 2021...
Chance at Life
LF Second place, fiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention Center writing contest, August 2021...
Okay, Not Okay
Michael D. Nash First place, nonfiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility writing...
A Face of the Epidemic
A FACE OF THE EPIDEMIC by Ebonie Warren First place winner, nonfiction, Heard/Arlington County...
Mass Incarceration
Mass Incarceration by Semhar Teclay Third place winner (tie) nonfiction, Heard/Arlington County...
How It Happened
How It Happened by Deonte Johnson Second place, nonfiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention...
What is Your Vision of What Hope and Change Looks Like?
What is Your Vision of What Hope and Change Looks Like? by VE Heard/Arlington County Detention...
Creative Writing
Visual Arts
Improvisation
Etiquette
Public Speaking
Dance
Singing
