Our limited edition Voices of the Street anthology features poetry and prose written by people experiencing poverty, inadequate housing, disability and other marginalizing barriers to the larger community.
Each year, we host community writing workshops with a theme for the next anthology as a writing prompt. Content is submitted by writers from these workshops, as well as our regular writing workshops at Onsite Detox and Transitional Housing. Many workshop participants have published in Megaphone magazine, and a few have gone on to publish their work in other literary publications, such as Geist, Poetry is Dead and White Rabbit Quarterly.
Vendors purchase copies of Voices of the Street at cost for $5 and sell them on the street for $15, keeping the profit.
Last year’s anthology, titled Losing Hope, Finding Home, explored the housing crisis and finding home from the perspective of people with lived or living experience of homelessness. The edition was printed in the style of tête-bêche (from the French, meaning head-to-tail). It is composed of two sets of prose/poetry printed together, but upside down and back-to-back, so you read one side, then flip the book over to start reading the other. Print copies are sold out but you can view a digital version here.
Our 2024 Voices of the Street edition will go on sale on the streets of Vancouver starting on May 3, 2024.
Find your local vendor now to get a copy, or check our back editions below.
Thank you to our 2023 Voices of the Street Partners
