diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ea0ecc4c3..3dae75e83 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-## 0.2.1-dev3
+## 0.2.1-dev4
 
+* Added utility function for JSONL reading and writing
 * Added staging brick for CSV format for Prodigy
 * Added staging brick for Prodigy
 * Added ability to upload LabelStudio annotations
diff --git a/docs/source/bricks.rst b/docs/source/bricks.rst
index a4678d7ce..74e3e8279 100644
--- a/docs/source/bricks.rst
+++ b/docs/source/bricks.rst
@@ -477,6 +477,24 @@ Examples:
       json.dump(prodigy_data, f, indent=4)
 
 
+**Note**: Prodigy recommends ``.jsonl`` format for feeding data to API loaders. After running ``stage_for_prodigy``, you can
+use the ``save_as_jsonl`` utility function to save the formatted data to a ``.jsonl`` file that is ready to be used with Prodigy.
+
+.. code:: python
+
+  from unstructured.documents.elements import Title, NarrativeText
+  from unstructured.staging.prodigy import stage_for_prodigy
+  from unstructured.utils import save_as_jsonl
+
+  elements = [Title(text="Title"), NarrativeText(text="Narrative")]
+  metadata = [{"type": "title"}, {"type": "text"}]
+  prodigy_data = stage_for_prodigy(elements, metadata)
+
+  # The resulting jsonl file is ready to be used with Prodigy.
+  save_as_jsonl(prodigy_data, "prodigy.jsonl")
+
+
+
 ``stage_csv_for_prodigy``
 --------------------------
 
diff --git a/prodigy.json b/prodigy.json
deleted file mode 100644
index e5edc5277..000000000
--- a/prodigy.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-[
-    {
-        "text": "Title",
-        "meta": {
-            "type": "text",
-            "id": "7e8cd2056da73a7fefb6cd91f4e5d199"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "text": "Narrative",
-        "meta": {
-            "id": "ed2e59c337d01185f388a4e9334d6f2e"
-        }
-    }
-]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test_unstructured/test_utils.py b/test_unstructured/test_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d9d6d836d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_unstructured/test_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import os
+import json
+import pytest
+
+import unstructured.utils as utils
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def input_data():
+    return [
+        {"text": "This is a sentence."},
+        {"text": "This is another sentence.", "meta": {"score": 0.1}},
+    ]
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def output_jsonl_file(tmp_path):
+    return os.path.join(tmp_path, "output.jsonl")
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def input_jsonl_file(tmp_path, input_data):
+    file_path = os.path.join(tmp_path, "input.jsonl")
+    with open(file_path, "w+") as input_file:
+        input_file.writelines([json.dumps(obj) + "\n" for obj in input_data])
+    return file_path
+
+
+def test_save_as_jsonl(input_data, output_jsonl_file):
+    utils.save_as_jsonl(input_data, output_jsonl_file)
+    with open(output_jsonl_file, "r") as output_file:
+        file_data = [json.loads(line) for line in output_file]
+    assert file_data == input_data
+
+
+def test_read_as_jsonl(input_jsonl_file, input_data):
+    file_data = utils.read_from_jsonl(input_jsonl_file)
+    assert file_data == input_data
diff --git a/unstructured/__version__.py b/unstructured/__version__.py
index 3cf7ddb67..be1d55cde 100644
--- a/unstructured/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.2.1-dev3"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.2.1-dev4"  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/unstructured/utils.py b/unstructured/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..af2765c82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/unstructured/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+from typing import List, Dict
+
+import json
+
+
+def save_as_jsonl(data: List[Dict], filename: str) -> None:
+    with open(filename, "w+") as output_file:
+        output_file.writelines((json.dumps(datum) + "\n" for datum in data))
+
+
+def read_from_jsonl(filename: str) -> List[Dict]:
+    with open(filename, "r") as input_file:
+        return [json.loads(line) for line in input_file]