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Exist Otherwise

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Free quarterly 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.

Highlights

  • Vibe:Weird / outsider / wtf even is it
  • Response time:
    30 days after submission*
    Editor reported data
     / 
    43 days*
    Chill Subs tracker stats
  • Acceptance rate:
    ?*
    Editor reported data
     / 
    36.07%*
    Chill Subs tracker stats

Publication

  • Accepts simultaneous submissions

    What's that?

    When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time

  • Accepts previously published

    From the editors

    Anthologies, Blogs, Defunct Mags, Only Appeared In Print, Other Lit Mags, Personal Websites, Social Media

    What's that?

    When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary

  • Nominates for prizes

  • Active on social media

  • Available in print

  • Provides contributor copies

  • Has examples online

  • Offers expedited response

  • Runs themed calls

How to submit

  • Processs

    Other

  • Cover letter

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

  • Eligibility

    No specific eligibility requirements

  • Formatting

    Be neat and legible.

  • Author's rights

    We claim the right to publish your work on our website, in our PDF journal, and on social media for the sole purpose of promoting our journal. You will always be credited. All published contributors have the right to withdraw their work from Exist Otherwise at any time, for any reason.

  • Additional info

    We pay $15 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 Seeking unpublished work but will consider all submissions.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.

Tracker statistics

114

Total submissions tracked

43 days

Average response time

36.07%

Average acceptance rate

4 days

Fastest response time

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The Submissions Grinder Statistics

10.53%

12-month average acceptance rate

60 days

12-month average response time

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About

Exist Otherwise Literary Journal. We are a journal of creative writing and photography inspired by the gender-nonconforming writer, artist, and activist, Claude Cahun. We pay $15 per published piece. Most calls for submission will begin with a theme and a prompt (see Submissions for details). One is...

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    Eric Jennings (he/him/they/them)

    Editor-in-Chief