Presentations and Scholarly Applications of Works by Arthur Longworth

  • Center for American Progress Innovations Conference 2020, hosted by Vera Institute of Justice. Arthur was a featured speaker at this national conference.
  • "A Washington Inmate Fears Coronavirus Could Sweep Through His Prison Like a Fire." KUOW, National Public Radio. April 2, 2020. Arthur is interviewed by journalist Austin Jenkins about the coronavirus outbreak at the prison.
  • "Lockdown While Locked Up." Today, Explained podcast by Vox News. April 1, 2020. Arthur is interviewed about prison journalism and coronavirus outbreak at prison.
  • "Prison Writing with PEN America: Can Mass Incarceration and Freedom of Speech Co-Exist?", Givers podcast appearance (Arthur was interviewed by philanthropist Cliff Sloan about First Amendment/Freedom of Speech challenges faced by incarcerated writers and the vital role of the PEN Prison Writing and Justice program as well as the importance of writers in prison), November 19, 2019.
  • "How to Write in Prison" and "The Railroad" were performed onstage by dynamic authors, poets, activists, and actors Mahogany L. Browne, Shaun Leonardo, Aja Monet, Jon Sands, Christopher Soto, and Jecoina Vinson during PEN America's World Voices Festival at The People's Forum I New York City on May 8th, 2019.
  • "Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla", 2nd edition, photographs by Ethan Hoffman, text by John A. McCoy, introduction by Professor Dan Berger (University of Washington Press, 2018). Pages XXIV - XXV recounts Arthur's literary work and experience at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.
  • "Endemic Relation: Foster Care and Criminal Justice," presented at Concerned Lifers' Org. conference, October 2016 (ArthurLongworth.com).
  • "Raised, and Imprisoned, by the State," essay is part of permanent display in the University of Washington School of Social Work Art Gallery.
  • "Mass Drowning," presented at Concerned Lifers' Org. conference, September 2015 (ArthurLongworth.com).
  • "Life Without Parole," presented at Concerned Lifers' Org. conference, September 2014 (ArthurLongworth.com).
  • Arthur's work is excerpted and cited in Spirituality in Dark Places: The Ethics of Solitary Confinement, by Derek S. Jeffreys (Springer) 2013.
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz and rapper/poet Talib Kweli read "Walla Walla IMU" at a public reading in New York City, 2010. Reading is released as a podcast.
  • Changing Lives Through Literature (CLTL): An Alternative to Incarceration Founded in the Power of Literature to Transform Lives, uses The Prison Diary of Arthur Longworth #299180 as part of its program and publishes a review of Arthur's work, 2009.
  • PEN Prison Writing Benefit Reading, Kellen Auditorium, The New School for Design, NY, 2008. Author Francine Prose presented Arthur's work.

"The Railroad" written by Arthur Longworth, read by Jon Sands

World Voices Festival 2019

Concerned Lifer's Organization Conference 2016

Concerned Lifer's Organization Conference 2015

Concerned Lifer's Organization Conference 2014