AustLit

'How can you feel centred when you have no place to call your own? Australia has a large shadow population of people who have survived homelessness – whether couch-surfing, staying in a refuge, boarding house or caravan park, or sleeping rough. Too often they are dismissed or blamed. They are spoken for, and about, rarely get to speak for themselves.

'Edited by former The Big Issue deputy editor Meg Mundell, We Are Here is a vibrant and moving collection of stories showcasing the creative talents of people with experience of being homeless. From cold city doorways to lonely bush camps, dodgy boarding houses to the humid hell of Manus Island, these are powerful, defiant and illuminating stories that will make every reader question their place in the world, and the world created in their place. Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to charities working with homeless communities.

'Contributors include both undiscovered talents and already-celebrated authors such as Behrouz Boochani, Krissy Kneen, Claire G. Coleman, Josiane Behmoiras, and Gregory P. Smith.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.