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Write Or Die Zine

The WODZ (WriteOrDieZine) series is a prison-based publication
(prisoner zine) written by California Death Row inmates @ San Quentin
Prison. Printed, and distributed among the 700+ Death Row inmates housed
here, as well as other prisons and institutions throughout the country
via our distribution network ("Distros" for short) free to all prisoners.

The WODZ series of compilation and single author editions features
editorials, articles, journals, interviews, art, poetry and other
writings that chronicle the circumstances and life of a new
generation of inner-city youths who've become the new face of
California's dysfunctional death penalty system. The series of
almost two dozen small volumes offers our readers a broad narrative
that sheds a new light on this new generation from within the walls of
the largest Death Row population in the US. WODZ is a conscious, honest,
upfront & unfiltered perspective for the "outside" audience.

About This Blog

The purpose of my blog has evolved and layered over the past couple of
years as I began introducing this prison-based project to the social
media platform of BtB. The most useful and resouceful feature is the
transcription of "raw" posts that has enhanced the writing and editorial
work that goes into putting together each WODZ issue from scratch. This
has become the focal point of my blog, and an essential component of our
prison-based distro operation. It's your transcriptions that go into the
pages of WODZ.

As i begin to post more content (slated for planned WODZ) in the coming
months on both here and Papyrus Collective Group Blogs, I want to invite
your comments on subject matter and topics that you may have a
complimentary or critical POV on. As this project continues to enter
the digital public sphere and connect with a new audience, it's this
communicative feature I think is important in the process of developing
my blog, as well as this unique prisoner zine project.

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Subscription/Request WODZ

I wante to do something new this year for those of you interested in this
vintage art of zine literature - direct from the WODZ prison-printing press.
Especially those of you @BtB who comment and transcribe the many posts on
this blog, I want to offer a free subscription of WODZ to those who want it.
Free, meaning: no price for print or postage.

I'll also be filling your written requests for single issues of WODZ. That's
"one" issue per request. See the following pages of the WODZ catalog for zine
titles and information. You can snailmail your requests to my cell address here:

Byron P. Wilson Jr.
#P76622, CSP-SQ
San Quentin, CA 94974

If you'd like to be added to my shortlist to receive a 12 month, bi-monthly
subscription you can note me to, "add me to your shortlist." FYI, I'll generally
fill those requests for single issues, and give priority exclusively to those
shortlist subscription requests from the people @BtB whose names I recognize -
particularly our transcribers. You know who you are. Thank you for your support
and interest in this project.

*On filling written requests, certain WODZ issues (like backissues before 2015)
can take as long as 2 months to send due to limited and out-of-print copies.
Please be patient. Any questions or other comments abut this, you can get @ me
via post or snailmail.

WriteOrDieZine (foto of Piankhi) Piankhi, editor

(followed by copy of WODZ catalogue)