{"id":2,"date":"2024-08-14T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:59:04","slug":"index","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Off Center: A Writer&#8217;s Magazine for the MTSU Community!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The mission of&nbsp;<em>Off Center&nbsp;<\/em>is to provide publication opportunities to campus-affiliated poets, writers, designers, photographers, and artists. We strive to foster appreciation for the creative process, an open and inclusive community, as well as accurately portray the dynamic range of diverse voices on our campus. We encourage creators to share with us their process and, in turn, learn from each other by reading and&nbsp;engaging with the work of others in the community.&nbsp;<em>Off<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Center&nbsp;<\/em>is compiled by the staff of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/writing-center.mtsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Margaret H. Ordoubadian University Writing Center<\/a>&nbsp;who serve as magazine editors under the guidance of center administrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We welcome submissions from current students, alumni, staff, and faculty and are currently accepting submissions for our next issue. View our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/submit.php\">current call for submissions here<\/a>.&nbsp;Check out past&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/issues.php\">Issues<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-mtsublue-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/721630748\/Off-Center-Creative-Magazine-Issue-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Current Issue<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"display:grid;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/721630748\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-VsMptaUADbv6ViUHASXt\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7735849056603774\"\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission of&nbsp;Off Center&nbsp;is to provide publication opportunities to campus-affiliated poets, writers, designers, photographers, and artists. We strive to foster appreciation for the creative process, an open and inclusive community, as well as accurately portray the dynamic range of diverse voices on our campus. We encourage creators to share with us their process and, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}