AWARDS
2025
STILLWATER AWARD
Society of Professional Journalists-Florida/Prison Journalism Project
Best Collaboration, 3rd Place
“Lifeline, Cash-Grab, Tool for Censorship: Three Incarcerated Readers on eBooks in Prison”
by Paula Grieve, Stevie Wilson and David Webb
2024
PEN AMERICA PRISON AND JUSTICE AWARD
Memoir, Honorable Mention
“84 Days and Counting: The Plight of the Flightless”
by Paula Grieve
HONORABLE MENTION ESSAYS AWARD
Tisch College of Tuft’s University
reSentencing Journal
“Why Write”
by Paula Grieve
ARTICLES/STORIES/POETRY/OP-EDS
2026
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS
Inaugural Journal: Say it With Your Chest
“Homecoming Under Pressure: Prison Pen Pal Woes”
by Paula Grieve
Genre: Journalism
“When Kallman returned to prison five years ago for organized fraud, she placed a pen pal ad on a website which offers an avenue for connection between people in and outside of prison…The first red flag came last year when Mike repeatedly asked to meet her young adult daughters.”
— from “Homecoming Under Pressure: Prison Pen Pal Woes”
SINKING CITY MAGAZINE
“The Accidental Abolitionist: Or, the Importance of Self-Reliance”
by Paula Grieve
Genre: Fiction
Darkly comic literary prose blending ideology, domestic violence, mental health and addiction.
“The night before I was arrested on suspicion of murder, I dreamed I had died, drowned in the bathtub I shared with my husband of thirty years.”
— from “The Accidental Abolitionist: Or, the Importance of Self-Reliance”
TACENDA MAGAZINE
Bleakhouse Publishing.org
“Where Does the Fault Lie?”
by Paula Grieve
“She’s Still Here”
by Paula Grieve
Genre: Poetry
Two Poems highlighting the realities of domestic violence.
“She was burned with a cigarette
She was carrying her child
She was making dinner in the kitchen
Woman in a blue dress
Woman holding a sippy cup
Woman trying to get away”
— from “Where Does the Fault Lie?”
PRISON JOURNALISM PROJECT
prisonjournalismproject.org
“The Day I Fed a Bird in Prison”
by Paula Grieve
April 2, 2026
Genre: Nonfiction
“A faintly familiar sense of normalcy settled upon me — as though I were a regular person enjoying a day at the park.”
— from “The Day I Fed a Bird in Prison”
2025
FPEP POST
University of Central Florida
cah.ucf.edu/fpep
Vol. 2, Issue 2
“Navigating Florida’s Prison Education Programs (PEPs)
by Paula Grieve
Genre: Journalism
” Higher education opens minds to new possibilities, passions and interests. By facilitating educational opportunities for the incarcerated, the Florida Department of Corrections can help to ensure men and women will be prepared to join the workforce and be better neighbors.”
— from “Navigating Florida’s Prison Education Programs (PEPs)
OAKLAND ARTS REVIEW
oakland.edu/ouartsreview
Volume 10
Spring 2025
“Beforehand”
by Paula
Genre: Memoir
“‘Step out of the car ma’am,” the officer said and shone the light in my face…Six benign one-syllable words irrevocably alter a life’s trajectory.”
— from “Beforehand”
2024
LITERARY HUB
lithub.com
October 25, 2024
“My Disillusionment with Jpay/Securus eBooks”
by Paula Grieve
Genre: Nonfiction
“I had hoped for a more robust selection, but truth be told, I prefer to hold a real book in my hands…My greatest concern regarding the lackluster showing of available eBooks stems from the very real possibility that the FLDOC may eventually bar incoming books.”
— from “My Disillusionment with Jpay/Securus eBooks”
reSENTENCING JOURNAL
Tuft’s University
Volume 2
“Why Write”
by Paula Grieve
Genre: Nonfiction
“A humbling thought invades your mind: owing to your sentence, (barring some miraculous intervention) a person close to you will one day receive the hodgepodge of personal property, representing decades of life, which you have painstakingly layered into the miniscule space, day after day, like some warped game of Jenga.”
— from “Why Write”
TAMPA BAY TIMES
tampabay.com
March 6, 2024
“Florida Prisoners Deserve Safe Drinking Water”
by Paula Grieve
Genre: Op-Ed
“In 2023, I obtained public records from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection that left me scared, angry and unable to sleep. Firefighters training for decades a few hundred yards away had left my drinking water highly contaminated by chemicals…”
— from “Florida Prisoners Deserve Safe Drinking Water”
2023
THE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
storyhouse.org
“No Meddling”
by Paula Grieve
Genre: Memoir
“Going to Grandma’s house meant a trip to a special place, a veritable treasure trove filled with things irresistible to the curious nature of a child.”
— from “No Meddling”
Paula Grieve 