HEPI hosts non-credit-bearing creative writing courses with incarcerated students at a prison in Pennsylvania.
American fiction writer and essayist Dr. Ann Pancake hosts creative writing workshops with inside students each semester. Students in creative writing workshops have the opportunity to create and revise works of both fiction and nonfiction while participating in feedback cycles with their peers and receiving guidance from Dr. Pancake.
Students have self published work as a result of their participation in creative writing workshops and report an increased sense of worth and confidence after participation.