Winner of the 2024 Book Award for Anthology from the Maine Literary Awards

"Together, the anthology astonishes with its range, and the high quality of its prose, the seeds of our future authors being nourished at the Telling Room, and starting to grow." ⁠ — Nina MacLaughlin, The Boston Globe

The fifty poems and stories in From the Edge of the World express what it’s like to change––what it’s like to grow up, what it’s like to leave, and what it’s like to look back. Printed in the pages of this book is literature about defining girlhood, hiding in cabinets, eating olives, communicating with a duck, saving sea turtles, loving tiny aliens, encountering ghosts, murder, and drowning, and feeling or losing the love of siblings, parents, grandparents, and friends.

Here you’ll find fiction, personal narratives, memoir, essays, poems, letters, and persuasive essays by authors who explore the struggles of growing up, family, home, culture, and self-discovery. They play with humor, darkness, tenderness, and empowerment and range in tone from grief, loss, and death to peace, love, and joy.

ANTHOLOGY | $22.00 | Paperback | 2023 | ISBN 979-8-9877055-1-3