You can view the archived list here--and I archived it because I know how @penamerica.bsky.social works. I've already written the IWB team and asked them to remove these pieces. If the org actually does the right thing and removes the stories, they will do it quietly and pretend this never happened

This is infuriating for many reasons--in large part because @penamerica.bsky.social has now made a practice of taking credit for the work of incarcerated writers that it had no hand in helping to produce.

What is the Incarcerated Writers Bureau, if not simply taking credit for published work that @penamerica.bsky.social didn't support in any way? How did the org supposedly "facilitate" the publication of these pieces? I would love to know.

If you work at somewhere that publishes incarcerated writers, I recommend you check out @penamerica.bsky.social's list of stories it claims to have helped facilitate. If it's a false claim, as it was with all of @prismreports.org's reporting, I suggest you ask that they remove your work.

Let me remind you that PEN is a multimillion dollar lit org that is taking credit for the work of tiny nonprofit newsrooms such as @prismreports.org. PEN offered not a dollar or an ounce of support for the work we've published by incarcerated writers. This is disgusting & honestly, mad disrespectful