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.
A Black Boy Born the Fall of 1980, What is Blackness
A Black Boy Born the Fall of 1980, What is Blackness Aaron Connelley Heard/Arlington County...
Land of the Free
Land of the Free Marlan Barrington Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility writing contest,...
Shopping While Black
Shopping While Black Phillip Anderson Nonfiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility,...
Untitled – Non-fiction
Untitled – Non-fiction Aaron Connnelley Second place, Nonfiction, Arlington County Detention...
Truth under Attack
Truth under Attack Bryan M. Zemanski Third place, Nonfiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention...
The Written Smile
The Written Smile Sikandar Imran First place, non-fiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention...
The Day That Changed My Life
The Day That Changed My Life Imilsis Velazquez Nonfiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention Center...
Mass Incarceration
Mass Incarceration Semhar Gerensie Teclay Nonfiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention Center...
I’ve Weathered Some Ferocious Storms, and Noticed that the Most Extraordinary and Peaceful Sunsets seemed to Follow the Worst Ones
I’ve Weathered Some Ferocious Storms, and Noticed that the Most Extraordinary and Peaceful Sunsets...
Change or Remain the Same?
Change or Remain the Same? Anthony Campbell Nonfiction, Heard/Arlington County Detention Center...
Creative Writing
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Improvisation
Etiquette
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Dance
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