Edge is the third publication to emerge from A Year of Writing Naturally, a year-long series of workshops exploring nature as a living, generous source for writing.
This 28-page, staple-bound zine gathers eleven short pieces by writers working at the edges of experience: children staging a pretend wedding at the margins of a neighbourhood; fire spreading to its limits; a rhinoceros moving towards the edge of extinction; fog as a threshold we cannot see beyond; the shifting edges of intimacy, relationships, and consent; the receding tide and what it reveals; a cliff faced as a blank page.
Lyrical and intense, these pieces attend to moments where something changes, where edges blur or give way. Edge also marks the close of a cycle: the end of a year, the completion of a shared creative process.
Together with the two earlier zines in the series, Edge stands as a chronicle of what can grow when writers listen closely to the natural world — its rhythms, its thresholds, its boundlessness — and allow that listening to shape the work.
Edge includes stories and poems by
- Gwen Casey
- Bill Cox
- Valerie Fox
- Pia Goddard
- Joanna Kania
- Mona Lindqvist
- SJ Lyon
- Barbara Renel
- Ann Tudor
- Rachel Wolcott
- Holly Woodward
Click here to read an extract and here to have a look inside.
