LockupLit.com

 

Inmate "Inside" Stories

as told through their own poetry and prose

 

 

WHAT IS LOCKUP LIT?

 

LOCKUP LIT IS A PUBLISHER

OF NOVELS, SCREENPLAYS, and TV SERIES

 WRITTEN BY PRISONERS CURRENTLY IN LOCKUP.

 

 

 

OUR BEGINNINGS

 

ARTHUR B. PULITZER, THE CREATOR OF LOCKUP LIT, WAS FIRST CONTACTED BY A FORMER MOBSTER FROM NEW YORK CITY ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF WRITING A NEW SCREENPLAY BASED ON TRUE CRIMES.

 

THE IDEA INTRIGUED PULITZER.

 

THIS INDIVIDUAL THEN CONTACTED AN ACQUAINTANCE OF HIS,

AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW FOR 25+ YEARS, WHO THEN WROTE TO PULITZER.

 

AFTER THIS INMATE BEGAN TRUSTING PULITZER, WORD SPREAD THROUGHOUT LOCKUP THAT HE MIGHT PROVIDE A POSSIBLE OUTLET FOR THEIR WRITING.

  SO EVOLVED THE NAME

LOCKUP LIT.