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Magazine“Do it for yourself, your people, and your land”
An interview with the judges of Briarpatch’s 13th annual Writing in the Margins contest: Helen Knott, Juliane Okot Bitek, and Kevin Settee.
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Online-onlynotes of joy from the margins
What does it mean to pass or not to pass as a trans person? I am, I am, I am.
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MagazineCause of death
Sophie didn’t mean to die. She had simply arrived at the point where she was prepared to try anything to feel better.
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Magazine“We inhabit a land; the land inhabits us”
An interview with the judges of Briarpatch’s 12th annual Writing In The Margins contest: Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, Jessica Johns, and Randy Lundy.
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MagazineThe Deep
If you’re like me, your path out of this prison will follow the path of grief: denial, anger, negotiation, depression. But only acceptance and behavioural modification open the Big Locked Door. The staff say you are here to get better, but you are here to mourn your illusion of sanity.
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Online-onlyThat things can change
As far as being a good Indian, well, I don’t know. Some people look at me as good. Some people look at me as bad. It doesn’t bother me. I am what I am. And I’m proud of what I am.
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Online-onlyAmber Dawn, jaye simpson, and Jeff Bierk on ethics, futures, and rejection in art
An interview with the judges of Briarpatch’s 11th annual Writing In The Margins contest.
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Online-onlyClock me like one of your French girls
I’ve never seen myself. I still don’t, only a peripheral glimpse: of potential, of hope, of becoming, of future.
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MagazineWe are the boat’s people
Without the war, we would still be the boat’s people, Má. We try to find land, where the joyful people are, but we only surround ourselves with water.
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MagazineArt against colonialism
An interview with the judges of Briarpatch’s 10th annual Writing In The Margins contest: Larissa Lai, Pat Kane, and Sonnet L’Abbé.
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Magazine“To create other worlds inside this one”
An interview with Writing in the Margins judges Gwen Benaway, Alicia Elliott, and Jalani Morgan
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MagazineThe McGill Experiments
“After his release, he cannot listen to loud noises, cannot sleep through the night; for a long while, he believes they will still come for him.” The creative nonfiction winner of our 2017 Writing in the Margins contest.
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MagazineNovember Threads
Honourable mention, creative non-fiction, of the 2017 Writing in the Margins contest!
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MagazineWriting For These Times
An exclusive interview with this year’s Writing in the Margins contest judges, Janet Rogers and Fathima Cader.
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MagazineWriting Across Borders
Briarpatch editor Tanya Andrusieczko caught up with our sixth annual writing contest judges to talk history, habits, politics, and writing.
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MagazineSometimes When I Think About Evan
From the moment he could get his hands on anything – alcohol, Valium from mom’s stash, boiled nutmeg in coke, opium – Evan was out of his head.
