We receive so many kind thank you letters each year from book recipients. Help us continue to send high quality books to incarcerated readers.
Thanks to a generous donor, the matching for Prisoners Literature Project’s Giving Tuesday campaign has been upped to $5,500. So every dollar you give, up to $5.5k has its impact doubled, until Friday, Dec. 1st.
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So much gratitude this week...
to our dedicated volunteers, whose hard work is shown so poignantly in this new video!
and to the super-talented @krishnahawk , for creating such a gorgeous video capturing both the details and spirit of how & why we do this work!!
❤️🙏📚
This is a request that we were able to fulfill with the books shown due to all the great book donations from kind people!
Our matching grant opportunity continues through May 2nd! For every dollar spent on books we get a dollar to help with postage!
Wishlists available via linkt.ree above or
/donate/#BuyBooks
Three days left to double your impact by contributing to @prisonerlitproject ! Through May 2nd, Prisoners Literature Project (PLP) @prisonerlitproject has received a matching grant for books purchased on PLP’s behalf to continue celebrating #IndependentBookstoreDay all week long. Web orders count too! (Check out the donation we’ve amassed so far from online orders in slide 3 ✨)
Check out the PLP tables at each Pegasus location, with books curated by PLP and Pegasus based on reader requests.
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! 🥳 From today through May 2nd, Prisoners Literature Project (PLP) @prisonerlitproject has received a matching grant for books purchased on PLP’s behalf! Great way to double your impact.
Check out the PLP tables at each Pegasus location, with books curated by PLP and Pegasus based on reader requests. And, join us for #IndependentBookstoreDay fun all day!
Yay! It's Independent Bookstore Day! Once again PLP can benefit from a matching grant available for one week. The dollar total for all books purchased from our wishlists or at the Bay Area stores below will be matched by a foundation that wants to support independent bookstores and Books to Prisoners groups like PLP.
Wishlists available via linkt.ree above or
/donate/#BuyBooks
If you're in the Bay Area, books purchased at the local bookstores listed below with PLP displays will also be matched by the grant. Stop by and check them out. Bookstores are the best!
Pegasus on Solano in Berkeley @pegasusbooks
Pegasus on Shattuck in Berkeley
Pegasus on College in Oakland
Banter Bookshop in Fremont @banterbookshop
Cape & Cowl Comics in downtown Oakland @capecowlcomics
Thank you!!
#PrisonBooksWishlists #IndieBookstoreDay #IncarceratedReaders
To be of service: offer support to your friends/family/community like “how can I support or assst you”, “how can I show up for you”
Volunteer: look up places of interests to offer your time
Notice: notice when people may need help such as a neighbor or a friend moving
Do small acts of kindness and try not to expect things in return
Donate: clothes, books, or food
Personally I’ve been volunteering my time by going to Prisoners Literature in Berkeley
Share what you do in the comments
Check out PLP's new and improved 2026 zine library. We've been working on stepping up our zine game this year. Shoutout to @midwestbooks2p and others for all the great resources. 📰🫶✨️
Another big book drop arrived just in time. Art books have been flying off the shelf - it's always hard to keep up with demand. Shoutout @art_resources_transfer for another batch of incredible wide ranging art books for folks behind bars. You guys are the best!! 📚💖🫶 One of the books I'm especially intrigued by is "Assembling A Black Counter Culture," which offers a comprehensive look at the Black American roots of Techno music. - Zephyra @ PLP
Shoutout to Ellen and the Banter Books crew! It's always a treat receiving books from our wonderful bookstore partners. And a big thank you to the patrons who donated books. We really appreciate it.
New Urban books just dropped… straight into our grateful hands! 🎁📚 A massive thank you to our amazing friends at @hachetteus —and especially to Sara and the rest of the Right to Read team—for the donation. Urban aka Street Lit is one of our most popular genre requests and we are always struggling to keep the section stocked. Kia DuPree is a former assistant editor at St. Martins Press, and received the Fiction Honor Book Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association for her debut novel. Her work provides unflinching looks at intergenerational trauma and the psychological toll of violence, advocating for healing and accountability.
