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.
Susan Roney-O’Brien
Our experiences, the ones we hide from or behind, the hurts and fears, the joys, griefs and disappointments can strengthen us and our writing, can allow us to challenge our beliefs and self-doubts and get to work. We don’t need anyone’s permission to write. We write to find out. We write to mine what is…
Rebecca Curtis
I often find myself speaking to/for those who I feel have been silenced: my child-self (I feel children are often silenced), persons with disabilities…Many people have been historically silenced, some more than others, but I write about what I know, so the silenced communities I chose to write about are those I’m a member of.…
Nicola Dixon
There’s this magic that happens once you get over yourself and start following the rules again. The myth of the tortured artist, the clutching passion of the “real” creative…those perceptions are dangerous and limiting. Once you faithfully study writers who are better than you, once you pull back and apply a heightened attention to craft:…
