Off the Map
- Sandra Yuen
- Apr 16
- 1 min read
Book Launch
Saturday, June 7, 1- 4 pm
Alice MacKay Room
Vancouver Public Library - Central Branch
22.00
PRESALE – AVAILABLE MAY 1, 2025
Nonfiction | Poetry | Fiction
5.25 x 8 inches | 286 pages
Trade paperback | ISBN 978-1-7387167-8-4
May 2025
Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues
Edited by Betsy Warland, Seema Shah, and Kate Bird
Off the Map, an anthology featuring writers from Vancouver, British Columbia, with lived experience of mental health issues, aims to bring diverse and distinctive voices to the literary landscape. Works of creative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry on a wide range of subjects showcase unique storytelling styles and forms, offer fresh and fascinating perspectives, and are told with compelling honesty, inventiveness, and compassion.
“Off the Map is an orchestra of richness and compassion”
—Lindsay Wong, author of The Woo-Woo and Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality
“Humour abounds in this multi-genre collection that packs surprise and insights within the circuitous strategies of literary craft”
—Kevin Spenst, author of A Bouquet Brought Back from Space
Contributors:
Kate Bird, Tove Black, James Boutin-Crawford, Jessica Cole, Crisi Corby, Gilles Cyrenne, Venge Dixon, Jaki Eisman, Christy Frisken, Merle Ginsburg, Angela J. Gray, Adishi Gupta, Jean Kavanagh, Yong Nan Kim, Justyna Krol, jerry LaFaery, Danica Longair, Harry McKeown, Neven Marelj, Quin Martins, Pari Mokradi, Ronan Nanning-Watson, Rye Orrange, Mary Phyllis O’Toole, Bruce Ray, Ingrid Rose, Beth Rowntree, Lenore Rowntree, Kim Seary, Seema Shah, Neko Smart, Amy Wang, Sandra Yuen
