Now in its (ahem) third iteration, The Outside In is a nature diary with attention, curiosity, and wonder at its heart, documenting the natural history of my own personal world. It’s free and comes out on the last day of the month (as long as it’s been a good month).
It’s written by me, Jill Margo, a middle-aged, chronically ill writer and pressed flora artist who lives with her beloved A. in a corner suite of an old mansion on two-thirds of an idyllic city acre situated within a remnant Garry oak ecosystem.
Some of you know me from previous newsletters, The Jill Margo Mini-Mag and Over Here. Others know me from my work at The Creative Good (soon to be known as Jill Margo Creative) where I’m a creative guide who helps creators who’ve been most impacted by patriarchy and other oppressive systems to be in practice, season by season, in a generative, sustainable, and liberatory way.
My writing (back when I was sending it out TEN+ years ago) has been published in magazines like The Walrus and Geist and has been longlisted for the CBC Canada Writes Creative Nonfiction Prize and shortlisted for both a Western Magazine Award and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. This year, I’m focusing on healing my relationship with writing and, thanks to a BC Arts Council grant, I’m working on a “comfort novel”.
Botanically-speaking, I tend, grow, pick, and press flora for herbarium specimens and large floral compositions (like the one below). I also sell fine art quality giclée prints of my work in my online shop, also known as Jill Margo Herbarium.
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