In 2024, Charlotte Pence was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Pence will offer poetry workshops to teenagers incarcerated at Mobile’s Strickland Youth Center and on parole under Strickland’s jurisdiction. At the end of the 2024–25 academic school year, the students will celebrate their creative accomplishments with the publication of a print anthology and a ceremony attended by local and state officials. Through this project, Mobile will join the Alabama Writers’ Forum Writing Our Stories Program that aids incarcerated and paroled youth.