We’re having an Open House on June 4th!
Help us celebrate our new, roomier and sun-filled location. We’ve worked hard to create a nice space for volunteers to work as we answer book requests.
PLP thank you letters — Spring 2022
We’re so happy to share some more notes of appreciation that we’ve received from book recipients over the past couple of months. Joy oh joy we love to find these kind words tucked in the hundreds of letters we receive each month!
PLP’s at the Bay Area Book Festival this weekend!
Great news: Prisoners Literature Project will be at the Bay Area Book Festival this weekend in downtown Berkeley!
Independent Book Store Day: buy books for PLP & double your impact.
Independent Bookstore Day 2022 is a major opportunity to support local booksellers and stock up on new selections for yourself — and now, for PLP as well!
Books and more! Find out what other useful resources PLP includes in packages
Each package PLP sends to an incarcerated reader usually includes 1-4 books. However, there are a number of other great resources that may be nestled in the envelope. We thought we would share some of these items that we have created or that come to us from other great books-to-prisoners groups.
New PLP display at Oakland comic book store!
New PLP display at Oakland comic book store!
PLP thank you letters — Winter 2022
We’re welcoming in the new year with some more uplifting letters and warm holiday greetings from book recipients.
PLP: ways to help during the 2021 holiday season
Holiday greetings from the Prisoners Literature Project. Thanks for reading, donating and supporting our mission. We’re an inclusive, all-volunteer, grassroots nonprofit whose purpose is to encourage reading, the pursuit of knowledge, and self-determination among incarcerated people. And we’re still sending out 200+ packages of books to 49 U.S. states weekly, with your help. Following our Giving Tuesday appeal (much appreciated, those who donated money […]
PLP needs your help this Giving Tuesday!
Now that Giving Tuesday is nearly upon us, we wanted to update you all on the Prisoners Literature Project’s efforts to send books to incarcerated people throughout the U.S., and explain how we need your help.
Gratitude Poem
We love getting feedback from book recipients. This arrived in the mail recently and we are sharing it here with the permission of author.
