Tagged: Prison Stories

Checking on the Arts
10:04 am
Thu January 12, 2012

Prison Stories IV - Elaine Blanchard

Elaine Blanchard /

Prison Stories is Voices of the South's latest outreach program, providing a year-long writing and theatre intensive for women currently serving time in the Shelby County Prison System.  

Program director Elaine Blanchard talks with Kacky about Prison Stories IV, the latest incarnation of this project. In her words, "the women in the Prison Stories Project are using writing, theatre, and storytelling to move confidently into the future. Their stories are unique and valuable, dignified by the circle of trust they create for each other."

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Mid-South Features
4:01 pm
Wed November 30, 2011

Elaine Blanchard On the Power of Storytelling In Prison

Barbara Ball, Taketha Wilkins and Elaine Blanchard at the Shelby County Division of Corrections. Blanchard teaches a class on reading and writing, and personal storytelling.

Elaine Blanchard believes in the strength of storytelling, and finds herself spending hours with women who are incarcerated in the Shelby County Division of Corrections.  Blanchard says she, too, has felt “trapped” in her life, which inspired her to work with women behind bars.

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