Off Topic Publishing @OffTopicPub
Publisher of stuff that we like, including the monthly Poetry Box. Community of writers and readers. #WritingCommunity EIC: @MarionLougheed offtopicpublishing.com Online Joined December 2016-
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"With your finger, draw a circle - let it fail. Call that failure a door." =>Read "How to Make a Body Stay" by Kath Healing - August Poetry Contest Honourable Mention. #OffTopicContest #CanLit #Poetry offtopicpublishing.com/how-to-make-a-…
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"the weathered wanderer extols the waves breaking..." Read "EMPTY CANVAS" by Mark Hoffe - August's contest winner Honourable Mentions: “How to Make a Body Stay” - Kath Healing “How to Make a Legacy” - Andrew Shaughnessy “Loom Music” - Angela Rae Wallis offtopicpublishing.com/2025/08/31/emp…
"My fingers pinch the crisp envelope corners until it stings, and I drop the emotional trigger like I’ve accidentally caught a wasp." => Read "Once You Open It, You'll Change" by Lisa Zeltzer - July Fiction Contest Honourable Mention offtopicpublishing.com/2025/08/22/onc… #OffTopicContest
"It shouldn’t have, but that’s what that little envelope did. It drew her in. It drew her out. Out of her own life and into a world of what ifs." => Read " The Envelope" by Laurel Howe - July Off Topic Fiction Contest Honourable Mention offtopicpublishing.com/2025/08/18/the…
“It was a lovely funeral,” Brit told the husband. Her eyes avoided the drink in the man’s hand—his third or fourth since they’d come back to the house. -> Read "Out in the Open" by Alison McBain - July Fiction Honourable Mention #OffTopicContest #CanLit offtopicpublishing.com/2025/08/14/out…
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"“I WANT TO KISS YOU,” read the subject line in my inbox." => Read "Two Kinds of Courage" by L McMechan - June CNF Honourable Mention #OffTopicContest #CanLit #Travel #Creativenonfiction offtopicpublishing.com/2025/07/22/two…
"I always wanted to know everything you thought of. Everything about the way you thought was beautiful, back then." =>Read "Bro Island" by Murgatroyd Monaghan - June CNF Honourable Mention. #OffTopicContest #CanLit #creativenonfiction offtopicpublishing.com/2025/07/10/bro…
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