Creative Writing with Women in Prison

Narratives of Haunting

Rosalchen Whitecross (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2026
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-5323-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2026
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-5292-5323-3 / 1529253233
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-5323-8 / 9781529253238
Zustand	Neuware