VOICES in the LIBRARY
With the Santa Fe International Literary Festival
“Wonderful to hear real connections to life issues and struggles from the storytellers today. I will take away those connections and sense of place.”
-Anonymous, Voices in the Library Participant
To help kick off the 2026 Santa Fe International Literary Festival Swan Quill West hosted a free creative writing workshop, Landscapes and Landmarks: Memoir in Poetry and Prose at the main branch of the Santa Fe Public Library.
Joined by Tucson Poet Laureate Logan Phillips, Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets, and Author of Whiskey Tender Deborah Jackson Taffa, we facilitated a community workshop with over seventy-five attendants: festivalgoers, community members, and participants in The Voice Project.
A gallery of painting, sculpture, photograph, collage and fabric art from the Voice Project and Vital Spaces Unhoused Art program was on display at the Santa Fe Library through the month of May.
We are deeply grateful to our generous partners at the Literary Festival for making space for the unhoused writers we serve. Voice Project writers received comp. tickets to some of this year’s most exciting events—getting face-to-face with luminaries like Ada Limon, Susan Orlean and Ocean Vuong and many others.
Poets Laureate Logan Phillips & Jake Skeets
Voice Project & Vital Spaces Unhoused Art Pieces on Display
Full house at the Library Community Room
Voice Project Writer Sally using her comp tickets at the Lit. Fest
Postcard from the Voice Project - Artist: David Trujillo, Print & Distribution courtesy of Santa Fe International Literary Festival
Postcard from the Voice Project - Artist: Luis Castro, Print & Distribution courtesy of Santa Fe International Literary Festival
Postcard from the Voice Project - Artist: Lilyane, Print & Distribution courtesy of Santa Fe International Literary Festival
Postcard from the Voice Project - Artist: David Trujillo, Print & Distribution courtesy of Santa Fe International Literary Festival
Postcard from the Voice Project - Artist: Jim Cox, Print & Distribution courtesy of Santa Fe International Literary Festival
Postcard from the Voice Project - Artist: Luis Castro, Print & Distribution courtesy of Santa Fe International Literary Festival
Postcard from the Voice Project - Artist: Luis Castro, Print & Distribution courtesy of Santa Fe International Literary Festival
Postcard from the Voice Project - Artist: Lilyane, Print & Distribution courtesy of Santa Fe International Literary Festival
Postcard from the Voice Project - Artist: David Trujillo, Print & Distribution courtesy of Santa Fe International Literary Festival
Postcard from the Voice Project - Artist: Lilyane, Print & Distribution courtesy of Santa Fe International Literary Festival
Postcard from the Voice Project - Artist: David Trujillo, Print & Distribution courtesy of Santa Fe International Literary Festival
Postcard from the Voice Project - Artist: Jim Cox, Print & Distribution courtesy of Santa Fe International Literary Festival
“I love the quality of this time spent sitting and writing together, something magic happens in the spaces between and among us. It’s the magic that happens in garage bands, in rooms filled with prayer, in the gatherings and solitudes of vistas and sunsets, in the quiet conversations that take place between readers and books.”
-Shuli L, Voices in the Library Participant