PEN America's Prison and Justice Writing Mentorship Program has paired incarcerated writers with skilled writing mentors in prisons all over the U.S. for nearly 50 years.

Stereotypes have long defined the region. Parton showed the world its true heart — and offered a challenge

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy yard

No moon floods the memory of that night only the rain I remember the cold rain against our faces and mixing with your tears only the rain I remember the…

It’s Mother’s Day, and you wake up mad. Hands up like a boxer against any gesture of solace. This year it’s official: your mother has been dead as long as she was alive. Put that on a fucking Hallmark...

When the post office burned, the volunteers saved the flag and two shelves. The letters went to ash. Allen Pike shoveled what he could into a bus tub, took it home, and worked the ash into the lot beh...

In a secret Appalachian grove, Lindsey Pharr waits out a thunderstorm to witness synchronous, blue ghost fireflies in Western North Carolina.

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

Did you hear about the Black man? The Black woman? Black boy? The Black girl gone missing? Kidnapped. From thoughts and prayers. From the news. A child turned memory turned muted turned into a body, f...

The t-shirt I pulled out of the free pile was soft and faded black and once belonged to what must have been the best smelling human on Earth. It threw up a cloud of dust as I shook it out on the sunli...

The village with all of the flash writers