Featured Writers

Mark Gansert

15 pieces

Guide for Surviving HomelessnessHomelessness Is a Social PrisonA Life of Homelessness — Part 2Street ChristmasMichael Francis: A Good SoulA Life of Homelessness — Part 1Trying to Do Right: Part 2Trying to Do Right: Part 1A Long NightThe Cigarette CartelRefuge from the madnessNeighbors for a NightShelter ShockI Wait for RedemptionCamp Davis

David Alan Goldberg

12 pieces

A Good RideHomelessness IsBeans 0 · Where to Sleep ReadBeans 1 · Where to Potty ReadBeans 2 · What to Wear ReadBeans 3 · The Food Issue ReadBeans 4 · Meditations on Coffee ReadBeans 5 · Crazy ReadDAG Shorts 2 ReadThings I Could Have Used While Homeless ReadDAG! · Issue 65 ReadWhere Do You Sleep? · Spring 2017 Read

Bill McIlmail

9 pieces

One PersonPreventing HomelessnessThankful To Have Found SimplicityHindsight is 20/20The Struggle is RealSupport System & The EdgeA Dog I KnewThe Outside PeopleLook at Me

Vince Shumate

8 pieces

My Attempt to Prepare for 44-Degree WeatherIn Search of SleepFresh StartThe Kindness of StrangersHomeless in Charleston: Part 2Homeless in CharlestonHomeless AgainOne Week on the Streets

Ruth Hsieh

6 pieces

Bell RingerThings I Love · Ruth Hsieh ReadRuth Up · a coloring book by Ruth ReadIssue 57 · drawings by Ruth ReadMore Drawings by Ruth ReadLittle Safari · a coloring book by Ruth Read

Michael Glass

5 pieces

Beginning of the EndMeet Hippie and An IntroductionWe Aim HighThankful For One Another (And More)Freedom Isn’t Liberty

Franklin Wright

5 pieces

Letters from PrisonThe start of my homelessnessThings I Would LikeI RememberThe Truth about Prison

Joshua Caldwell

4 pieces

Speak Up Drawings · Joshua Caldwell ReadSpeak Up Drawings V.2 · Joshua Caldwell ReadColoring Book · Joshua Caldwell ReadJoshua’s Coloring Book #3 Read

Qiana

3 pieces

Abundant GratitudeI Will Not Give UpSupport Qiana’s Family to Avoid Eviction

Michael

3 pieces

PanhandlingMichael: Homelessness IsDown and Out — and Loved

Edward Smalls

3 pieces

No Idea WhyThankful, Looking, HopingI Was a Meat Cutter

Earleen Mingo

3 pieces

The “Little” IncidentI couldn’t believe my eyesEating Garbage

Carlos Jeronimo

2 pieces

Sheltered and AloneThe Life Cycle of a Homeless Person

Sean

2 pieces

To Most People I Look NormalAttitude

Ava Roseboro

2 pieces

I’m Not BitterI’m Not Bitter, I’m Better

Lynn Mendes

2 pieces

My HomelessnessThe Best Moment of My Life

Elijah Kelly

2 pieces

Reflecting on The CrashReflections from the Rearview Mirror

Renee Rop

2 pieces

UnmentionablesThings that make it harder

C.C. Williams

2 pieces

I Am Grateful For LifeWhere is home?

Gypsy Glass

2 pieces

Gypsy, goodbyeThankful For One Another (And More)

Dustin LaPres

2 pieces

Three Friends That I Have LostJunkyard Angels

Troy Burtnick

2 pieces

On and Off the StreetsHow I Got Out of Homelessness

Tom Carter

2 pieces

Ringing the holiday bell24 Hours of Me

Angel Williams

2 pieces

Think BetterThe Benefits of Hardships

Tawanna Glass

2 pieces

A Lucky BreakTrade and Tryon

Randy Parcher

2 pieces

The Artist’s BaneBoxes in Boxes

Molly Barker

1 piece

Help Bridge the Monthly Gap for Two Households

Anonymous

1 piece

Homelessness Is

Mike Cook

1 piece

My Downward Slide

Dustin Hinson

1 piece

Dustin’s Story

Matthew

1 piece

Dad’s Homelessness

Ann Nelson

1 piece

A Complicated Conversation

Harry Griffin

1 piece

Harry Griffin on Homelessness

Kelli Seekings

1 piece

I’m Thankful For The New People In My Life

Matt Hoffman

1 piece

Staying Clean

Sidewalk Mike

1 piece

Call Me Sidewalk

Johanna Elattar

1 piece

A source of love and hope

Chuck

1 piece

I keep hope alive as best I can

Douglas Lawing

1 piece

True Believer

Michal Smith

1 piece

Things Seemed Impossible

James Crider

1 piece

Concrete Dreams

Tyrone

1 piece

I don’t think it will last long

Garth

1 piece

Why are you homeless?

Mary King

1 piece

I have walked in those shoes

Michael Jones

1 piece

The world needs more Vans

Jennifer

1 piece

My Two Lives

Anthony Amos

1 piece

I was homeless and a business owner

Sheila Apperson

1 piece

Wounded & The Jack of Diamonds

Kimberly Morris

1 piece

How to Talk to a Homeless Person

Laurie Koelsch

1 piece

A Battle to get off the Street

Lori Denine

1 piece

I Have Survived

Fred Corfet

1 piece

Spring

Tony Burns

1 piece

Adventures in Transportation

Vanessa Keith

1 piece

The Day That I Died

LaTonya M. Wilson

1 piece

Focus