The VOICE Project

“Give us more more more, as we vanquish our fears with friendship.”

-Anonymous, The Voice Project

An ongoing creative writing and artmaking workshop for unhoused and formerly unhoused people, The Voice Project meets every Thursday at 2:00pm at The Friendship Club.

Begun as a partnership between the Academy of American Poets and Santa Fe’s own Poet Laureate Tommy Archuleta, The Voice Project has continued beyond that initial funding period due to popular demand.

During its first year, The Voice Project has included over fifty participants—from the folks who come every week rain or shine, to people who drop by every once in a while. Our participants mainly come to us through The Life Link or the St. Elizabeth’s Shelter Network, although we welcome anyone.

Voice Project writers have read at Vital Spaces 3140 Gallery, had their artwork and poetry displayed on the Santa Fe City Busses as part of the Arts and Culture Department’s Poetry In Motion, and were the titular and featured guests in Voices in the Library: SQW’s contribution to the 2026 Santa Fe International Literary Festival.

We are delighted to continue this project through May of 2027. A grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry will help make this possible, and a gift from the Gale Family Foundation has underwritten “Ourselves Outside Ourselves,” a collection of writing and art from the Voice Project, forthcoming in print from Sunstone Press in 2026 and co-released digitally on this site.

If you are an unhoused or formerly unhoused writer, join us some Thursday at 2:00 at the Friendship Club. We’ll be glad to meet you.