Every week in THE BIG ISSUE in SCOTLAND there is one
page devoted to the creative writing, poetry, prose and
other written work by homeless people in Scotland. It's
called CITY LIGHTS.
The main resource of this page is the output of two
homeless people's writers' groups. One in Glasgow and
the other in Edinburgh.
Over the years the feature has shrunk down from two
pages to just one and, while the publisher's disclaimer
about the work not representing their own views or
philosophy remains, this doesn't stop them editing the
work and excercising a sort of editorial censorship.
In order to give themselves a forum truer to the original
concept of the CITY LIGHTS page, the members of the
EDINBURGH group have set up a web site of their own.
http://communities.msn.com/EdinburghCityLights
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