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: 60 days after deadline*/Editor reported data43 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: 5%*/Editor reported data36.07%*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
How to submit
Process
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 Seeking unpublished work but will consider all submissions.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
Average acceptance rate
4 days
Fastest 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 written work and $20 per photograph. Most calls for submission will begin with a theme and a prompt (see Submissions ...
Read moreFounded
2021
Country
US
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Eric Jennings (he/him/they/them)
Editor-in-Chief