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.
Join us May 15, 2025, from 6:30-8:30 PM, to celebrate the launch of Megaphone’s 2025 and 15th annual Voices of the Street special literary edition “Gravity” at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. This anthology features 39 pieces from writers based in the Downtown Eastside. Megaphone conducts creative writing workshops in collaboration with Onsite to produce this work, as well as street submissions received at our low-barrier hub.
This year’s theme explores what keeps us grounded and connected, what threads us in times of chaos and calm.
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Thank you to our 2024 Voices of the Street Partners
