About the Reading
Readers from the group shared poetry, memoir, fiction and nonfiction during a live evening at Bird and Beckett Books in Glen Park. The 2024 reading brought together seven members for an evening of writing rooted in the lives and struggles of working people — rabble-rousers, activists, leftist radicals, union members, immigrants, native-born, and plain old trouble-makers reading from their work.
The LaborFest Writers Group was formed in 2005 to honor labor and working people, and to provide a platform for writing that might otherwise go unheard. Their work gives voice to what has gone before and why we must confront new technologies that threaten to undermine our livelihood and rights.