"All around you see us. Broken, breaking, mending, Don’t pretend you can’t hear us too."
We’re excited to share the launch of More Than One Story – our first-ever published anthology, a groundbreaking collection of new writing by thirty-seven emerging and established writers from across the UK with lived experience of homelessness, poverty, and inequity.
The book features original pieces from Sonali Bhattacharyya, Malorie Blackman, Chris Bush, Kayleigh Llewellyn, Michelle De Swarte, Inua Ellams, Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini, Debbie Hannan, Charlie Josephine, Errol McGlashan, Neetu Singh, Chris Sonnex, Joelle Taylor, Naomi Westerman, Roy Williams, alongside twenty-two new works from a national open call, with a foreword by BAFTA Award-winning actor Michael Sheen.
From sofa-surfing and street-sleeping to the rental industry, citizenship, identity and mental health, these monologues shift between imagined futures and urgent realities. They encompass resilience, hope, rage and humour to create a multifaceted portrait of homelessness and poverty in the UK today.
We received 135 submissions to the open call. From these, our panel of readers selected twenty-two writers to feature in the anthology, representing diverse voices from across the UK. The writers are: Adil Hassan, Allie Bittar, Bobby Brill, Chloe Barrow, Daniel York Loh, Jhenifer Acacia, Joanne Gallagher, Jordon Grant, Julie Tsang, Kay Adshead, Kerry Fitzgerald, Khasha Hobbeheydar, Oakley Flanagan, Peyvand Sadeghian, Redd Lily Roche, Rina Vergano, Sally Lovutta Coker, Shona Bukola Babayemi, Sophie Cairns, Steph, of the Lilac System, and Sydney Trotter.
On 9 November, we’re thrilled to bring these monologues to the stage at Trafalgar Theatre in More Than One Story Live, a one-night-only West End performance hosted by Rory Kinnear. The evening features readings from Laura Checkley, Arthur Darvill, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Shon Faye,Paterson Joseph, Nicôle Lecky, Daisy Lewis, Sara Pascoe, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Tom Rasmussen, Nabhaan Rizwan, Danusia Samal, Josh Tedeku & Liam Williams.
Sharing the stage with Members of Cardboard Citizens, they will bring these monologues to life in a night of testimony, resistance, and creative truth-telling, offering a multifaceted portrait of homelessness and poverty today.
Tickets from £20. Pre-order the anthology and secure your seats here.
