Creative Writing with Women in Prison

Narratives of Haunting
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5323-8
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Centred on creative writing workshops in UK women’s prisons, this book explores what happens when imprisoned women begin to tell their own stories which are shaped by disempowerment and social exclusion.

Blending creative practice with critical analysis, it positions prison writing as both a mode of resistance and a means of reimagining the self. It brings long-overdue attention to the voices of incarcerated women, so often marginalised within the wider prison estate and overlooked in criminological research. This is an urgent, compelling contribution to prison studies, creative criminology and feminist approaches to writing and pedagogy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whitecross, Rosalchen

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Physiotherapie, Physikalische Therapie Ergotherapie, Kreativtherapie (z. B. Kunst, Musik, Theater)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Professor Maggie O'Neill

Preface – Towards Prison Writing as Narratives of Haunting

Part A: Women’s Imprisonment and Prison Writing

1. Context – Into the Mortuary of Keys

2. Seeking Women’s Prison Writing – an Encounter With the Empty Shelves of Time

Part B: Creative Writing Workshops in Prison

3. Creative Writing as Research Method – Writing and Reading Together

4. Positionality – Writer-Researcher

Part C: Critical Engagement With Women’s Prison Writing As Narratives of Haunting – a Writing Journey in Three Parts

5. Beginning the Journey – Maternal Connections

6. The Middle Journey – Crosscurrents in the Self As Site of the Struggle

7. Journey’s End – Ghosts

8. Conclusion – Journey Concludes to Continue

Über Autor(innen)

Rosalchen Whitecross is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Bath Spa University and Research Associate at Wits University in South Africa.