LaborFest Writers are proud to announce the publication of Giving Voice 2026: LaborFest Writers Anthology – our latest collection of writing: fiction, polemic, memoir and poetry tracing the lives and struggles of working people across generations and geographies. Giving Voice 2026 is available now and features: Nellie Wong ** Barbara Ruth Saunders ** Susan Ford ** Robert Eugene Rubino ** Alice Elizabeth Rogoff ** Jerry Path ** Margaret Cooley ** Keith David Cooley. A volume that insists on being heard.
The corporate-controlled media amplifies the voices of the powerful and diminishes the voices of working people. LaborFest Writers was founded to change that.
LaborFest Writers grew out of a single afternoon in July 2005 — a writing workshop during LaborFest at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, led by radical writer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Eight or nine people sat around a few tables in a dark little café and wrote about their first jobs. By the end of the day they had agreed to exchange email addresses.
Twenty years later, the group still meets — now weekly on Zoom, since the pandemic. We are rabble-rousers, activists, leftist radicals, union members, immigrants, native-born and plain old trouble-makers — outside the literary mainstream and committed to staying there.
Join us on Wednesday, July 29th, from 7 to 8:30 pm at Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative, 3130 24th Street, San Francisco, as featured writers from the anthology read from their work. All are welcome.