off the margins pushes the boundaries of language, conventional form, blended genre, and prose flash, featuring women writers who fearlessly tell the truth and risk vulnerability to give voice to their experience. Together we are writing our collective history, considering what we know, and asking how we can craft our yet unwritten lives. We encourage dialogue between our writers and readers.
Reverie Koniecki
A voice can be singular, yet also belong to all the bodies and experiences it connotes. Language is where we construct the common dream of the human experience, yet fails at ultimately allowing one to fully experience the body of another. My artistic aim is to explore these seemingly contradictory aspects of the physical and…
Becky Dennison Sakellariou
When I dive into the writing of a poem, I am entering an altered state, inhabiting a world of remembering, reimagining and reconstructing that can transcend the world that already exists. In order for that to happen, I reach for the emotional components, the human pieces, the movement in the place or the event. …
Martha Andrews Donovan
I have found that narrating a new life in my late fifties, however precarious and unsettling, has been a gift. While I was grieving the end of one story, I was quietly building a new one, even when I did not always realize that I was doing so. I am not the most patient person,…
