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Arthur Longworth is one of the 2024 inaugural Freedom Writing Fellows through Haymarket Books. Writing Freedom aims to elevate the necessary voices of poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers impacted by carceral systems. Learn more about what Arthur is doing today and hear him read from a previous work:

Arthur Longworth | 2024 Fellows Biography for 2024 fellow Arthur Longworth.

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“All this time, I’ve watched an unbroken river of foster youth come in after me,” Longworth said during one of two calls from prison with an Imprint reporter. “We weren’t born to be criminals, but compounded trauma led to this.”

New Washington laws aim to break foster care-to-prison pipeline As the state looks to reform its juvenile justice system, special attention is being given to foster children.

Arthur Longworth can be heard closing out this episode of Today Explained. Today, he shared the following message via JPAY: You guys are lucky -- you can vote. Please make sure you do it.

Today, Explained: The Voters Election turnout is on track to be the highest in a century. Farmers, essential workers, prisoners, and two ladies named Ruth explain their 2020 presidential pick. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congratulations to Arthur Longworth for being awarded a 2019-2020 Writing for Justice Fellowship from PEN America.

This is a prestigious honor, which will garner him a wider audience as well as shine a much needed light on the foster-care-to-prison pipeline, which will be the focus of his work.

Writing for Justice Fellowship The Writing for Justice Fellowship commissions writers to create works of lasting merit that illuminate critical issues related to mass incarceration.