Alex Tretbar

Alex Tretbar

Alex Tretbar is a Kansas City-based poet and writer. As a Writers for Readers Fellow with the Kansas City Public Library, he teaches free writing classes to the community.

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Crime, Reform & Abolition

Why isn’t PEN America paying its incarcerated literary prize winners?

It started with a tweet. “I won the @PENamerica Prison Writing Contest in 2022 and never received the $250 prize, even after much back and forth via email, which continues to this day. I know of at least one other first place winner who never received their prize money, either,

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By: Alex Tretbar, Natalye Childress

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