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.
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:…
Therese Gleason Carr
I have been exploring my ancestral lineage on my mother’s side and have felt compelled to give voice to the women who gave me life and whose sacrifices and survival have led to my being right here, right now, humbled and privileged. I am trying to create an opening, a channel, through which their voices,…
