Speak Up
Speak Up, Matt ShawWriting communities that bring people together across gaps of economics, culture, housing status
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Publish your work from the writing groups
For summer 2026, here’s a sharpened approach to Speak Up writing groups publishing.
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You join in for an in-person writing group.
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Write with others to shared prompts.
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Later: you publish your writings online. Put your pieces...
Need shared. Need met.
On Thursday, Qiana called me.
She was facing a financial crisis and was hours away from ending up on the streets with her kids.
I first met Qiana in one of the weekly Speak Up writing groups. In the writing groups, people come from divers...
Community is Hard (and Possible)
Speak Up writing groups hit on multiple levels.
They provide individual invitations. These spaces let people discover and uncover things within. Carving out time to pause and write can help us notice priorities, reclaim what is important....
About Speak Up
Write Together, Bridge Divides
In Speak Up writing groups, people come together across so-called impassable chasms—homeless versus non-homeless, this race versus that race, left versus right, my way versus your way—and do the deeply hum...
We are writing to these prompts right now
At this exact moment I’m sitting with others around a cluster of round tables writing to shared prompts. We’re sipping coffee, munching donuts, and holding space for one another to silently write and audibly read.
We are discovering as we...
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Subscribers, engagement, traffic and sponsorship for Speak Up.
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The writers behind this newsletter.
A voice and opportunity for people facing homelessness.
Executive Director of Speak Up — real-life writing communities that bring people together across divides of homelessness, race, politics.
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