National Adult Literacy Database

The 2001 Grassroots: Community Writing Workshop organized by The Centre for Literacy in collaboration with the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival focused on the homeless. There was discussion about street people who could not read or write well, and about talented writers and artists who find themselves homeless at some point in their lives.

In these pages, participants at the Blue Metropolis Festival and Community Writing Workshop are introduced and selections from the writings that they read or shared at the Festival are presented.