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Call for Support!

I publish a tiny cult #LitJournal called #ExistOtherwise that pays contributors for their work. The journal is inspired by the gender non-conforming artists #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore. The journal publishes a diverse range of artists including first-timers alongside well established professionals. We also feature #LGBTQIAplus content.

I publish out of pocket and don't have a lot of money for promotion. Would you please consider nominating us for the 3rd Annual Chill Subs Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards?

You don't have to be a member of Chill Subs. The form is literally only three fields, and will take seconds.

This isn't for me. I don't need the validation or attention, but I'm trying to bring more eyeballs to our many talented contributors.

https://www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag-awards

my #LitJournal #ExistOtherwise, which is inspired by the gender non-conforming artist/activist #ClaudeCahun is on the fediverse!

@index

That is the journal itself, not just a promotional social account. You can follow and read the journal right here.

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/

color photo of a small concrete cemetery statue of a saint. the figure's head has broken off and is laying on the ground. the background is abstractions of blues and greens, creating a mysterious and soothing mood

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:

https://www.existotherwise.com/editorial-calendar/

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

https://www.existotherwise.com/consecrated-by-use/

#ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

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…”

https://frightenthehorses.com/chaos-will-ensue/

"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

https://www.existotherwise.com/home-writing/

The Lost Boy, is a short personal #cnf essay, by a #MaleSurvivor of #ChildhoodAbuse. It's the kind of thing we would love to publish in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal.

I’m linking to it here as a favor to someone to help bring attention to The MenHealing Blog.

https://open.substack.com/pub/menhealing/p/the-lost-boy

a poem about an owl in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal seems odd… or does it?
https://www.existotherwise.com/flaco/

in her submission of “hotspur: esperance ma comforte,” writer Carmen Aiken described it as “An excerpt from a hybrid book born from Shakespeare's Henriad and turned into queer pining.”

https://frightenthehorses.com/hotspur-esperance-ma-comforte/

#ExperimentalWriting #LitJournal #QueerWriting

#Submission to Issue 14 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal are open again and with a new theme:

We Will Not Go Back!

We seek writing and art of all kinds, especially work that is #queer, #trans, radical, experimental, personal, or otherwise challenging to the status quo.

#poetry, #essay, #script, #fiction, #prose, #cnf, #photography, #collage, #montage, #surrealism, #weird, #wtf