This is why The Big Issue remains

Joe Gallagher came knocking in spring 2015. He had been selling The Big Issue and was sleeping rough in Edinburgh. Joe wanted to write and asked if he could send some things through. It’s a question that is asked from time to time. The answer is always yes, though copy doesn’t always follow. When Joe sent his piece, you could see it was different, that there was something to it. It was funny, it was raw, there were echoes of Irvine Welsh. Here was a new voice telling of the reality of street living in ways that hadn’t been properly told in a long time. Joe’s circumstances – he wrote longhand at night, then found a library during the day to type it up and send it through – added an extra…

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The Big Issue United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, 18-12-2017

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