LuxLit Press
Illuminating Challenges. Actualizing Dreams. Nurturing Human Beings.
Through the publication of original materials created by people who are incarcerated, LuxLit Press seeks to spark new understandings for people. We are an intentional collaboration inside and out of prisons in the state of Colorado. By seeing, supporting and strengthening the luminescence of every author we come into contact with, we strive to celebrate the work, craft and joy of publication.
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Our Publications

Imagining Worlds Anthology
Imagining Worlds: An Anthology of Plays by Artists from Colorado's Prisons is a collection of creative work selected from DU PAI's course Imagining Worlds: Reading and Writing Plays. This 12-week class served over 200 incarcerated residents in ten Colorado Department of Corrections' facilities in the summer of 2020.
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Sojourn: The Search
"Sojourn: The Search" is a year-long journal composed of daily prompts which ripple out from the theme of ‘the search.’ No pursuit is too BIG or too small to explore in these pages. No search is trivial or unwelcome here. We believe that being alive in the hopes of something yet to come is elemental to our existence as human beings. Arts in Society is a proud supporter of Sojourn.
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The Inside Report
The Inside Report is a news publication for Colorado Department of Corrections residents, staff and the general public of Colorado. Its mission is to provide an intellectually challenging forum for information, entertainment and inspiration, written by and for the people who live and work within the CDOC. The newspaper journalists and staff at Fremont Correctional Facility strive to be good stewards of truth, while recording history and news that affects us all.
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Reverberations
Reverberations—The Magazine is a high-quality literary and visual arts magazine with engaging, thought-provoking ideas, providing a critical and creative outlet for incarcerated individuals and serving as a voice for a community of writers and scholars, artists and visionaries, to grapple with big questions, stimulate minds and spark imaginations. Reverberations is edited by Matthew LaBonte and Brett Philips, who are residents at Sterling Correctional Facility.
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Tell It Slant Anthology
In this amazing book, "Tell It Slant: An Anthology of Creative Nonfiction from Colorado's Prisons," participants from ten Colorado Department of Corrections facilities contributed original essays, poems, recipes, journal articles and excerpts from memoirs.
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