Image created by Safiyah Riddle with the help of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library photo collection. Photos used for collage with permission.

Fiction without Freedom

By Safiyah Riddle

Newmark J-School Audio Journalism · Writing for the Seagull

Currently and formerly incarcerated writers explore how the process of writing, as well as the core tenants of fiction itself, are disrupted by the realities of incarceration.

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Featuring Rayne Vylette, Guy Zappulo, Lamarr Ried, Marvin Wade, and Sara Kielly produced by Safiyah Riddle. Sounds provided by primejunt, tjandrasounds, theflyfishingfilmmaker, ThePaleWriter, Archive.org and freesound.com for contributing audio to this piece. Photos used for collage with permission from collection:

#22,390
O’Connor, Karen
The herring gull: Karen O’Connor.
1st ed. New York : Dillon Press, C1992.
Photo credits, t.p. verso.

#17,975
Lezin, Jeremy
The factory. Portrait of a leathergoods factory in downtown New York City.
Pictures by Jeremy Lezin, words by Miles Cahn.
New York, Coach Products, Inc., (c1977)