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Demetrius
  • REGION: The Midwest
  • GENRES: Poetry
  • Screenwriting
  • Playwriting
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Journalism

Demetrius A. Buckley

BIO:

Demetrius "Meech" Buckley is the author of Here is Home (O, Miami), winner of the 2021 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize.His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Yale Review, The Boulevard, The Rumpus, PRISM, The Progressive, ResentencingNow, and elsewhere. He is the finalist in the Rattle 2024 contest and received The Editors Choice Award in The CRAFT: Memoir excerpt and Essay contest for 2024. His writing has been honored by the Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award and Soul-making Keats Literary Competition and he has performed his work at the Brooklyn Museum. An editor for The Freedom Meridian by way of Apogee, Buckley is hopeful for his future activism work through Look2Justice and Empowerment Avenue. He is serving a 20 to 30 year sentence for a second degree murder.

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Demetrius’s Publications

The Actors & the Awards; Contributors’ Notes; Near Kyiv; Bodies in Northern Africa
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If You Were to Ask Me Love
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Naming of Our Village
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Letters from Daddy
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Contact Infomation

Preferred way to Work Through the Walls

Demetrius Buckley #449071

Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility (MTU)

1728 Bluewater Highway

Ionia, MI 48846

OTHER IMPORTANT INFOMATION ABOUT Demetrius

The IWB facilitates connection and opportunity between currently incarcerated writers and those seeking to commission their work by creating a pipeline for advocacy organizations, journalism platforms, and literary publishers to successfully access exceptional justice-involved writers as expert voices on mass incarceration and wider literary expression. 

The IWB facilitates connection and opportunity between currently incarcerated writers and those seeking to commission their work by creating a pipeline for advocacy organizations, journalism platforms, and literary publishers to successfully access exceptional justice-involved writers as expert voices on mass incarceration and wider literary expression. 

The IWB facilitates connection and opportunity between currently incarcerated writers and those seeking to commission their work by creating a pipeline for advocacy organizations, journalism platforms, and literary publishers to successfully access exceptional justice-involved writers as expert voices on mass incarceration and wider literary expression.