Since its founding in 2004, VOX Press, Inc. has devoted itself to supporting neglected and underserved populations in Mississippi through education, literature, and the arts by publishing books by avant-garde authors, organizing and sponsoring readings, performances, and other special events featuring regional, minority, and avant-garde authors, musicians, and artists, and, by providing in-house educational services (remedial, secondary, and post-secondary) to inmates in the Mississippi prison system. VOX’s Prison Writes Initiative provides training in basic literacy and creative writing for incarcerated Mississippians, has been the recipient of the prestigious Mississippi Humanities Council’s Educator of the Year Award, as well as the Mississippi Governor’s Volunteer of the Year Award.

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1. VOX Press to Publish “Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison” December 2024 – The Local Voice
2. New book amplifies voices from Mississippi State Penitentiary’s Unit 29
3. Dispatches From Mississippi’s Parchman Prison
4. Parchman Prison Art - University of Mississippi
5. “Christmas at Alcorn Correctional Facility” photographs by Gaetano Catelli – The Local Voice
6. Teachers Fight Recidivism With Creative Writing in Prison
7. VOX Press Launches New Book Featuring New Stories from Parchman Farm Inmates - HottyToddy.com Covers Ole Miss Sports, Oxford Entertainment, Dining & More
8. Oxford's Louis Bourgeois teaches literary class to death row inmates at Parchman - The Oxford Eagle | The Oxford Eagle
9. Full article: Mississippi is Still Burning: Life in the Vortex of Carceral Capitalism
10. Ralph Eubanks explores Mississippi's literary prowess - Mississippi Today
11. Words in Confinement - The American Scholar
12. Teachers fight recidivism with creative writing in prison - Washington Times
13. RANDY WEEKS: Holy work at Parchman Farm
14. The Long Hard Way through 'Mississippi Prison Writing'
15. Parchman inmates write third book | The Enterprise-Tocsin
16. Affirming Agency and Humanity: What We Can Learn from Reading Prison Writing
17. Book Review: "Mississippi Prison Writing" Offers an Unfiltered Look at Life Behind Bars - The Arts Fuse
18. Vox Press’s new “Mississippi Prison Writing” anthology – Nobody's Home
19. OUR OPINION: Prison Writes program a powerful ministry
20. Writing program helps Parchman inmates