Off The Map

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