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"Free bi-monthly online journal of creative writing and photography. Our muse and inspiration is the gender-non-conforming writer, photographer, actor, and activist, Claude Cahun. We seek work that is personal and willing to challenge. Submissions are always open."

Current Theme

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"Free bi-monthly online journal of creative writing and photography. Our muse and inspiration is the gender-non-conforming writer, photographer, actor, and activist, Claude Cahun. We seek work that is personal and willing to challenge. Submissions are always open."

Vibe

Weird / outsider / wtf even is it

Response Time

2-4 weeks / 22 days

Acceptance Rate

60%

  • Payment

    Yes: $10 per piece

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

9 genres

Fiction

Max words: 1313

Max pieces: 1

Low word counts (under 400-500) may submit up to 3. Long word counts (over 500-600) please only submit 1.

Fiction

Max words: 1313

Nonfiction

Max words: 1300

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

Max words: 1313

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

Any style. Maximum length is 500 words. Due to the limitations of html, poetry that requires special formatting may be submitted as docx, pd...

Hybrid

Max words: 1313

We are not heavily invested in categories, forms, or formats. In fact, we like work that makes us go, “huh?” We use the categories: poetry, ...

Photography

Max pieces: 4

We want work rooted in the self, in your self, your dreams, your challenges, your desires, your struggles. Erotica is fine, but nothing expl...

Play

Max pieces: 1

Written works only. Stage plays, monologues, dialogues, or short films. We do not publish videos or animation (at this time). Maximum length...

Wtf is genre, send anything

We are not heavily invested in categories, forms, or formats. In fact, we like work that makes us go, “huh?” We use the categories: poetry, ...

Fiction

Max words: 1313

Max pieces: 1

Low word counts (under 400-500) may submit up to 3. Long word counts (over 500-600) please only submit 1.

Fiction

Max words: 1313

Nonfiction

Max words: 1300

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

Max words: 1313

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

Any style. Maximum length is 500 words. Due to the limitations of html, poetry that requires special formatting may be submitted as docx, pd...

Hybrid

Max words: 1313

We are not heavily invested in categories, forms, or formats. In fact, we like work that makes us go, “huh?” We use the categories: poetry, ...

Photography

Max pieces: 4

We want work rooted in the self, in your self, your dreams, your challenges, your desires, your struggles. Erotica is fine, but nothing expl...

Play

Max pieces: 1

Written works only. Stage plays, monologues, dialogues, or short films. We do not publish videos or animation (at this time). Maximum length...

Wtf is genre, send anything

We are not heavily invested in categories, forms, or formats. In fact, we like work that makes us go, “huh?” We use the categories: poetry, ...

Statistics

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Track submission

38

Total submissions tracked

22 days

Average response time

60%

Average acceptance rate

4 days

Fastest response time

57 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 73 days, 82 days

How to submit

Process

We prefer you to use our submission form, but we accept email submissions. Be sure to include your name and email prominently with every piece submitted.

Cover letters

No cover letter or bio is needed. We prefer not to know too much about you before we read your work.

Eligibility

All marginalized creatorsLGBTQ+ creatorsWomen and other marginalized gendersYoung creatorsCreators w/ disabilities

Formatting

Be neat and legible.

Rights for published work

We do not claim any rights to your work beyond publication in EO (online and in PDF). This includes archival rights. All published contributors have the right to withdraw their work from Exist Otherwise at any time, for any reason.

Additional info

We pay $10 per individual work. We are interested in identity, gender, recovery, and self representation. Seeking unpublished work but will consider all submissions. Let us know if a work is previously published and where. We like weird.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2021 | United States

Exist Otherwise Literary Journal. We are a journal of creative writing and photography inspired by the gender-nonconforming writer, artist, and activist, Claude Cahun. Issues will be published on this site on the thirteenth day of the following months: September, November, January, March, May, and July. Issues will also be available online here and as a downloadable PDF. We pay $10 per published piece. Most calls for submission will begin with a theme and a prompt (see Submissions for details). One issue per year may be open-themed. Claude Cahun was a Jewish French gender-bending writer, artist, activist, and anti-fascist in the first half of the last century. Their creative and political work centered on identity and opposition to cultural conformity. They were part of the surrealist movement, performed acts of symbolic cultural protest and propaganda, and was imprisoned for their work in the French Resistance.

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Eric Jennings (he/him)

Editor-in-Chief