Updates

  • 2026

    Introducing… Speak Up Magazine!

    For a decade, Speak Up published a print magazine that gave voice to many dozens of writers facing homelessness. Here’s a great pre-Covid news story…

  • About Speak Up

    Write Together, Bridge DividesIn Speak Up writing groups, people come together across so-called impassable chasms—homeless versus non-homeless, this race versus that race, left versus right,…

  • 2025

    Speak Up Open Mic Next Week

    Join us next week for a Speak Up Open Mic Night in downtown Rock Hill, SC. The Speak Up community of workshop writers, old friends,…

  • Printed Workshop Magazine

    We’re preparing to publish a printed anthology magazine of select writings from the Speak Up workshops. All current and former workshop writers are invited to…