chapbook contest update: expect to hear something about your submission by the end of October & likely much sooner!

rejections: do you like the song and dance of "we received so many tremendous submissions, etc" or do you like it quick and straightforward

thanks to everyone who has submitted to our chapbook contest! we've officially started reading. we're also going to extend the deadline a bit according to our whims so you have a little extra time to submit if you need. elsewheremag.submittable.com…

sometimes you see the font and think "this is gonna be good" and you know what? most of the time it is

⭐️issue 30 is out now! ⭐️chapbook submissions close at 11:59 on Sept 1 elsewheremag.org/issue-30/

okay okay you've kept us in suspense long enough you can submit your chapbook manuscript now elsewheremag.submittable.com…

somewhere on your computer (notebook?) are 15-30 prose pieces that long to be bound together in a chapbook. two weeks left to help them out. elsewheremag.submittable.com…

red means URGENT 4 more weeks to submit! elsewheremag.submittable.com…

your cover letter won't necessarily help you get accepted, but it certainly could make your reader feel guilty for rejecting you🥲

idea for the rest of summer: abandon all your other projects, spend the next six weeks assembling the perfect manuscript, and send it to us at the very last minute. that would be exciting. $20 fee/$1000 prize elsewheremag.submittable.com…

k we want to see less spam & more chapbook submissions ⬇️ elsewheremag.submittable.com…

only weeks left to submit to our chapbook contest!!! 10 weeks. you have some time. we appreciate everyone that’s submitted so far!

Autumn: an old dog gnaws at burrs. Hours pass but who recalls the backfilling of each minute? from the great Eric Pankey's "Of the Epic One Recalls a Passage" elsewheremag.org/issue-29/#p…

"Some of us detach and become air. We are breathed in and out from lung to lung, until we find a cloud watcher or a star gazer who pushes us up and out of the atmosphere." from "One of Those Dead" by lena kinder elsewheremag.org/issue-29/#k…

"They land planes, they land helicopters and rockets. We are sparrowed and cowed. We write poems. They rewrite tomorrow. They use all caps and AI. The coffeepot cools. The toaster shines." from a spectacular pair of poems by seth hagen: elsewheremag.org/issue-29/#h…

"The story was that there had been spies in our midst for far longer than we suspected. Something had gone out, something viral, something that could not be put back." from "An Apocalyptic Fairy Tale" by c.c. russell elsewheremag.org/issue-29/#r…

issue 29 is here & ready to be loved elsewheremag.org/issue-29