We have finished responding to all submissions for Issue 14 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal
If you submitted work to us for this issue and have NOT heard back from us, please reach out.
This was the hardest issue to select works for. We had to turn down a lot of beautiful work.
#ExistOtherwise #LitJournal was inspired by #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore. When we began publishing, we did not realize that the US was on the verge of becoming a fascist country.
"Remembering the queer, anti-Nazi art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
https://vashtimedia.com/cahun-moore-antifascist-queer-surrealist-art/
"Stay in the Garden, Get Civilized, Procreate, Muck It Up" is the odd title for this photograph by Cleomé Morra in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal
if i'm not mistaken the title is a #DianeArbus quote
https://www.existotherwise.com/stay-in-the-garden-get-civilized-procreate-muck-it-up/
Themes have been posted for the next three issues of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal
Issue 15 (July): "Soldier Without a Name"
Issue 16 (October): "Neuter is the Only Gender That Suits Me"
Issue 17 (January 2026): "Cancelled Confessions"
#Submissions Windows are posted here:
Issue 14, April 2025 * Submissions Close Feb 28, 2025 * Responses sent between Mar 3-28 * PDF proof copy sent to Contributors on Apr 2 * Website proof sent to Contributors on Apr 9 * Issue 14 Published on Apr 13 * Payments to Contributors sent Apr 14 Issue 15, July 2025 * Submissions Open April
this #photography #SelfPortrait speaks to me of #sanctuary
by Victoria Ojo in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal
https://www.existotherwise.com/healing-streams/
As kids / my cousins and I would watch wrestling
/ at times vaguely / at others overtly racist /
and always toxic with measurements of “testicular / fortitude”…
The “Master of the Death Match,” Nick Gage
#Poetry by by Christian Hanz Lozada in Issue 13 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal
https://www.existotherwise.com/the-master-of-the-death-match-nick-gage/
i am sometimes tongue-tied when looking for words to describe the qualities of a piece that caused us to accept it… we look for all of these qualities, and more: innovation, experimentation, the personal, self-exploration, a challenge, daring, bold, revolutionary, inspiring, wit, literary references, co-optation, i could go on and on…
Consecrated by Use by Adrienne Pine is…
gorgeously simple and superlative #prose
Chaos Will Ensue by Debbie Robson is a short #ExperimentalWriting piece in #FrightenTheHorses #LitJournal
“If I ignore the cars outside and the decor of the café, it could be 1976…”
"They asked me to write about home
When there is nothing to write home about
They want me to feed their minds with gory JPEGs
But I don’t have the stomach for that..."
#poetry by Nigerian poet Abdulrahman M. Abu-Yaman in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal
our muses are #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore
Eric Jennings */3
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