At a ceremonial connected Thursday night, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain-Gang All-Stars was awarded the 2nd yearly Inside Literary Prize, the first-ever US-based literate grant to beryllium judged by presently incarcerated people. Readers from 15 prisons crossed 6 states and territories selected Adjei-Brenyah’s caller from a shortlist of four.
“There is nary question that this is the highest imaginable grant a publication similar this could ever receive,” said Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, successful a statement. “I instrumentality it to mean those who judged believed I was not careless oregon callous, that I utilized connection successful a mode that felt similar truth. This retroactive mandate is simply a acquisition I tin ne'er repay, but 1 I volition everlastingly beryllium grateful for. I privation to convey each those Inside, those who judged and those who did not. This grant is dedicated to you all.”
The Inside Prize is organized by Freedom Reads, successful collaboration with the National Book Foundation, the Center for Justice Innovation, and Interabang Books co-owner Lori Feathers.
