MPWW’s Annual Student Reading
This year's very special 15th anniversary capstone event will feature MPWW alumni, teachers, mentors, family, and some special guests who will read powerful poetry, fiction, and essays written by our students. We hope you can join us for another unforgettable night celebrating our students' work and our wonderful community. This is a free event open to the public. All are welcome.
Saturday, October 24th, 2026
7:00-9:00 PM
Klas Center, Kay Fredericks Room (3rd Floor)
Hamline University
1537 W Taylor Ave, St. Paul 55104
The reading will also be live-streamed via Zoom. Registration is required to receive the link to the livestream (register here). No registration is required for the in-person reading.
Mission
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW) fosters literary community and a devotion to art inside Minnesota correctional facilities through high-quality creative writing classes and related programming. During incarceration and throughout reentry, we empower writers, challenge stereotypes about the incarcerated population, and promote a vision of rehabilitation and restorative justice through art. We also seek to bridge the divide between literary communities inside and outside of prison by creating platforms for our students’ work.
History
MPWW was founded in 2011 with a single creative writing class at Lino Lakes Prison. Since then, we’ve grown into an organization of over 25 instructors who have taught more than 250 creative writing classes to over 3,000 men and women in every adult state prison in Minnesota. We are now the largest and most enduring prison-based literary organization in the country. Learn more about our classes and other programs here.
