New — 2026
Giving Voice: LaborFest Writers 2018–2026
Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by the LaborFest Writers Group
The second anthology from the LaborFest Writers Group — collecting the best work from our monthly workshops and annual readings over eight years. Stories about the lives and struggles of working people, told from the inside.
Publication details to be announced. Contact us at info@laborfestwriters.org for information.
Contributors — 2026 Anthology
- Margaret Cooley
- Keith David Cooley
- Alice Elizabeth Rogoff
- Jerry Path
- Susan Ford
- Robert Eugene Rubino
- Barbara Saunders
- Nellie Wong
First Anthology — Published 2018
First Anthology
Giving Voice: LaborFest Writers Anthology 2005–2017
Published 2018 · $19.00 · ISBN 978-0-926664-05-0
The first anthology from the LaborFest Writers, collecting thirteen years of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from our workshops and annual LaborFest readings. Stories about the lives and struggles of working people — laborers, farmers, cooks, union workers, immigrants, and activists — told from the inside.
To obtain a copy, contact us at info@laborfestwriters.org.
Contributors
- Margaret Cooley
- Keith David Cooley
- Alice Elizabeth Rogoff
- Jerry Path
- Nellie Wong
- Phyllis Holliday
- Adele Kearney
"We are involved in the struggles to have our voices heard — our outsider voices. Even though our writing appears in the same anthology, please recognize that we are all very different. The themes and concerns of our writing are as varied as we are. It contains memoir, fiction, poetry."
— LaborFest Writers
"Having initiated the workers’ writing workshop that blossomed into the LaborFest Writers Group, I am in awe of its continuance and growth, now publishing a brilliant anthology of their work, giving voice to working class desires, woes, courage, and resistance while trapped in this merciless capitalist reality."
— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Historian · Author, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
About the Group
The LaborFest Writers have been workshopping and publishing since 2005. We are rabble-rousers, activists, Marxists of one stripe or another, union members, immigrants, and native-born — outside the literary mainstream and proud of it. Our writing spans memoir, fiction, and poetry, all rooted in the lives and struggles of working people.