The Key to Resilience with Sarah Shourd and Robert Pollock

For Episode 5, we’re doing a two-part series with PEN America. For Part 1, we speak to Sarah Shourd and Robert Pollock. 

Robert is the manager of the Prison and Justice Writing Program. The program just published a new craft handbook called The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison. Sarah Shourd is one of the handbook’s talented contributors.

Sarah Shourd is not only an essayist, but also a journalist and playwright. Sarah reads to us from her essay about writing a play based on her experience in solitary confinement in Iran. She talks to us about the trajectory of her work, and how she balances art and activism in her life.

PWN's Debut Review is hosted by Project Write Now, a nonprofit writing studio. Learn more at projectwritenow.org.