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‘Home’ a tiny true story…

''Home''..an award-winning, tiny true story.


Reported by Denise

Published on Thursday, October 5th, 2023

Accommodation Identity Substance Use
Reports Video Stories

‘Home’ a tiny true story…

''Home''..an award-winning, tiny true story.


Written by Denise

Published on Thursday, October 5th, 2023

Accommodation

Identity

Substance Use

 

You look at all the homeless people sleeping on benches or in shop doorways on cardboard, and think to yourself “Thank God that that will never be me”…I know; I get it…because I used to think that too… “Home”…an award-winning, tiny true story.

Written by Denise


Denise Harrison is an award-winning writer and film-maker, whose writing career began back in 2017 when she was newly in recovery and living in a homeless hostel. As a way to cope in an ever-changing and often challenging environment (and also as a way to understand herself and to try and make peace with her demons) she began to write, and her website "Just A Girl-My Life" (justagirl.emyspot.com) was born.
Next came her short, dark, animated film "This Is Depression" which won 8 film awards and accolades, and which was the spark that lit the proverbial fire and kick-started her career as an artist who pulls no punches with her brutally honest stories of mental health, homelessness and addiction.
She has 18 awards to date... both as a writer and as a film-maker, is a public speaker, mental health advocate, activist and campaigner and is also beyond proud to be an associate on the world's first cultural leadership programme founded by Arts and Homelessness International.
She is a community reporter for the Listen Up! project,  and shares her knowledge and her story in the hope that others can be inspired, and take heart in knowing that recovery is possible.

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