John J. Lennon is one of 20 writers selected to join the the inaugural cohort of Haymarket Books and the Mellon Foundation’s newly established Writing Freedom Fellowship. A program created to support writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction impacted by the criminal legal system, the Writing Freedom Fellowship aims to support and uplift the voices of system-impacted writers and counteract the atmosphere of punishment and extreme suppression brought about by the carceral state.
Read more at the Mellon Foundation.