elsewhere cares only about the line / no line. We want short prose works (flash fiction, prose poetry, nonfiction) that cross, blur, and/or mutilate genre. We publish only six writers quarterly. Give us your homeless, your animals, your lunch money: we're hungry.

elsewhere cares only about the line / no line. we want short prose works (flash fiction, prose poetry, nonfiction) that cross, blur, and/or mutilate genre. we publish six writers quarterly. give us your homeless, your animals, your lunch money: we're hungry.

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Annual Chapbook Contest

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Tip Jar Submission

judged this year by Kylan Rice
the prize: $1000 plus publication through elsewhere books
the rules: submit 15-30 manuscript pages of prose pieces (flash fiction, nonfiction, prose poetry, or something in between). we're looking for manuscripts with imagery, emotion, clarity, insight, narrative, and thematic or aesthetic unity. delight us, surprise us, break our hearts.
please do not include name anywhere on manuscript.
while some individual pieces may be published elsewhere, the manuscript as a whole must be unpublished.

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