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

Elizabeth Hawes

BIO:

Elizabeth Hawes has worked for 25 years as a comic actor, and produced variety shows and plays in the Twin Cities. She is the recipient of several PEN Prison Writing Awards, a 2019 journalist grant for the Solitary Confinement Reporting Project, a 2023 journalist grant for the Jim Ridgeway Reporting Project, the Fielding A. Dawson Prize from PEN America, and the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize with the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. Some of her 2024 work can be found in black lipstick, Prism, Lux, Santa Clara Review, and The Rumpus.

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Elizabeth’s Publications

What Happens In Prison When You Can’t Pee On Command
Elizabeth Hawes
Stripped Rights
Elizabeth Hawes
‘The hardest thing about being in prison is not being able to care for those you love’
Elizabeth Hawes
I’ve Been Incarcerated for More than a Decade. Music and Literature Set Me Free
Elizabeth Hawes
The Prison Diary of Elizabeth Hawes
Elizabeth Hawes

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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. 

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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.