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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."
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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
Acceptance Rate
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 We do not publish videos or animation (at this time).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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38
Total submissions tracked
22 days
Average response time
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
