Outskirts: Women Writing from Small Places

by Emily Schultz

Outskirts is an anthology of short fiction that gives women writing from small places a voice, often an unexpected one. As emerging writers, they are putting a new roof on feminist fiction.

152 pages, Paperback

First published May 9, 2002

About the author

Emily Schultz is the co-founder of Joyland Magazine. Her newest novel, Little Threats, is forthcoming from GP Putnam's Sons for November 2020. Her novel, The Blondes, released in the U.S. with St. Martin’s Press and Picador, in France with Editions Asphalte, and in Canada with Doubleday. It was named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR and Kirkus. The Blondes was produced as a scripted podcast starring Madeline Zima, which has also been translated into French.

Schultz's writing has appeared in Elle, Slate, Evergreen Review, Vice, Today's Parent, Hazlitt, Minola Review, Black Warrior Review, and Prairie Schooner. She lives in Brooklyn where she is a producer with the indie media company Heroic Collective.

Reviews

[Three O'Clock Press]

Outskirts is an anthology of short fiction that gives women writing from small places a voice, often an unexpected one. As emerging writers, they are putting a new roof on feminist fiction.