Unbarred Press is proud to announce its first publication.

Her/their Mighty Pen: Life writing from women’s prisons is a collection of poetry, memoir, letters and essays by women and non-binary people imprisoned in the UK.

Across these pages, the writers traverse love and grief, rage and relief, reflection and resistance. Their meditations on childhood, ancestors, care, identity, mental health and prison life map what it means to be fully, irreducibly human.

Singular in voice, collective in power, these are works that refuse to be silenced.

‘One of the most extraordinary collections of life writing I’ve read. We urgently need this book.’
Max Porter

Edited by Bel Sherlock, with a foreword by Scout Tzofiya Bolton.

Published by Unbarred Press on 3 September 2026.

Paperback | £12.99