New Website

Welcome to the beginning of a new website- and a new direction for Outsider Writers- which will now be known as the Outsider Writers Collective. Thank you for your patience and support during this time of transition.

Why the changes? Well, we were having some server issues and we wanted to make sure that we were doing our part to try to address the performance concerns, such as the load time and comment difficulties. Because our traffic has increased, we were forced to abruptly change gears- which we have done. As difficult as this was, we decided as a group to take this kick in the ass as a challenge and an opportunity to take stock of things as they have evolved and where we are today.

This organization has it’s history, as all do. The editors and members here today owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to the founders of The Guild Of Outsider Writers. It is with that spirit of appreciation that we hope to step up to the plate and work to make this organization grow, and we need to make sure that our resources keep pace.

Another change is the preference for the term “collective”, which sounds like a small distinction-it sounds like a minor title change. But it is more than that. As a word, it reflects a renewed commitment to collective and collaborative projects and a sincere desire to work productively as a community on our common goals. We feel that the term “collective” reflects who we are: members of a community, but members with our own identities and projects and affiliations. It reflects both cohesion, and autonomy.

As of now, we have a good mix of both new and old faces here, that comprise our editorial board. We have new members, new contributors, and new projects in the works. We have a new community network to facilitate the connection and communication we all know to be essential. And we have a new website that will take some time to tweak and organize.

For those contributors who post articles and content here, please know that we will be in touch with you shortly with some information about access. We hope that the new interface will be more “user friendly” for our writers and visitors.

As always, thank you for the support of our members.

The Editorial Board of the Outsider Writers Collective