Authors are invited to submit an original, hitherto unpublished story. We accept short stories (up to 2000 words) and long reads (up to 4000 words).​ We welcome already completed submissions.

We publish stories that speak the language of lived experience. This may be a biography, a portrait, an event, a situation, a historical moment, or an encounter. We expect stories to achieve depth, have narrative coherence, and take readers on a journey that deepens understanding and solidarity. 

We urge our authors to tell stories that are dialogic, multivocal and multicentred. We oppose modes of storytelling that perpetuate othering narratives.

We strongly recommend authors include at least one and if possible three to four photos or  original art as part of the final version of their published story. Authors must hold the copyright to the images or have been granted permission by the copyright owners to use the photos.

Please review our full submission guidelines to ascertain if your submission is suitable for Otherwise.

We look forward to receiving poems that emerge from everyday experiences, ethnographic engagements, and autobiographical reflections. We welcome diverse creative voices, recognised and emerging writers, and a variety of poetic forms and genres. Otherwise is an English language online magazine, but we welcome translations and multilingual poems.

Please review our full submission guidelines to ascertain if your submission is suitable for Otherwise.

We accept visual and graphic pieces in a variety of formats such as photography, short films and documentaries and comics strips as well as illustrations (standing alone pieces or a series of illustrations), which follow a clear narrative line and unravel the complexities of everyday life. 

You are free to play with text and visuals. We do not want to constrain  the potentially infinite combination of words and image

Any experiment is welcomed as long as it creates a balanced storytelling where the textual does not oversaturate the visual and the visual does not act as just a para-textual accessory. 

We especially look forward to challenging and uncanny experiments with the graphic medium and the comic format. 

Video submissions should be no longer than 10 minutes.

Please review our full submission guidelines to ascertain if your submission is suitable for Otherwise.

We look forward to creative compelling sonic pieces that explore the everyday through a self-reflexive and/or ethnographically engaged lens.

We especially look forward to challenging and uncanny experiments with sounds and sonic storytelling

Please send us your field recordings and sound recordings as a .mp3 or .wav files

Audio submissions should be no longer than 10 minutes.