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.
What’s your Opinion?
August 29, 2023: Arlington County Detention Facility, Community Readiness Unit (CRU). "An...
Chronicle of an Unsuccessful War
by Luis Carlos Peniche Garces First place, nonfiction, Heard/Alexandria Detention Center writing...
It’s All in the Details, part 2
By Joseph Mark Dorsey II and Eric Green Arlington County Detention Facility, July 17, 2023 Two...
It’s All in the Details
By Charles Hall, John Parker, and Moika Nduku Arlington County Detention Facility, July 17, 2023...
My Trip to England and My List of Positive Attributes
by Sarah Beth Young-Williams Friends of Guest House, June 2023
Budding Journalists at Space of Her Own
March 28, 2023: When Space of Her Own (SOHO) asked us to help the girls create their magazine, how...
Inmates Explore Creativity through Writing Contest Organized by Heard
September 8, 2022: Our thanks to the City of Alexandria Sheriff's Department for this coverage of...
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Untitled by Letecia Burch First place winner, Fiction, Arlington County Detention...
What Goes on at the County Jail
What Goes on at the County Jail by Bullard Third place winner, Fiction, Arlington County Detention...
Public Command’s All Street’s Donational’s De-Man-da-Ment’$
Public Command’s All Street’s Donational’s De-Man-da-Ment’$ by Christ Joshua M. Fletcher...
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