A new call for submissions on the theme of “Migration”. We want to explore the meaning of it outside of images of small boats: tell us stories of storks flying from Africa to Poland, about your family, about why movement matters. Open until November 15th, 2026. www.elsewhere-journal.com/submissions

We will publish our next call for submissions soon, but before that we would like to draw your attention to our updated AI policy, which you can also find on our submissions page.

Here's a poetic triptych relating to boat people, St George as asylum seeker, and our shameful response Thanks to @elsewherejournal.bsky.social for publishing "Us English" earlier this year www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2... #PoetsOfBluesky #PoetryCommunity #BoatPeople #StGeorge #Flags

Looking back to our Palimpsest issue, in 'Surfacing' editor Anna Evans writes about a walk in the rain around Brick Lane and Spitalfields in London. www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

Along with some profound writing about the end of the world, I have an essay titled A Taste of Armageddon: Navigating Star Trek’s Post-Catastrophe Era in @elsewherejournal.bsky.social latest issue. @intellectbooks.bsky.social #Startrek #FilmSky www.elsewhere-journal.com/the-end-of-t...

We are delighted to launch a new issue: The End of the World. We will introduce the fantastic contributions in the coming weeks, but for now invite you to browse it at your leisure. After all the end is not here yet, and if it comes, maybe it is not the end. www.elsewhere-journal.com/elsewhere-th...

'They mean well, the poets of place and landscape, but in their pages I observe I am the offspring of flat.' From our Palimpsest issue, poems by @clarebryden.bsky.social www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

We featured this story by @pwlewis007.bsky.social in our Palimpsest issue: "This particular story is inspired by the Latin American literary genre of crónica – a form of prose that combines fiction techniques with reporting on social and political topics." www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

"We re-write the same page, rubbing out the past, pretend we’ve invented something new. Yet I can’t help but think the soul of the place is being permanently erased [...] and my aching heart yearns for the rough and tumble enjoyed by the everyman." www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

"For a city like Kolkata, once you unravel the layers of summer dust, the monsoon downpour and the winter smog, you would be surprised at this feat." Read "Kolkata and its Nobel Legacy" by Neelakshi Ghosh in our Palimpsest issue: www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

"There are no ghosts in Grandi—in this modern apartment building, with its lovely glass balcony facing the sea. Whatever ghosts are here I brought them with me." Read 'The Strength of the Light' by Jenna Sciuto from our latest issue: www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

"...you, the Wanderer, would venture forth and navigate the Oslo streetscape, engraving a tribute to the city on these spindrift pages, a labyrinthine sentence..." 'An Oslo Wordhoard' by Mark Crimmins from our Palimpsest issue: www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

We continue our series of occasional short interviews with contributors and friends of Elsewhere with Seán Carlson, whose poetry featured in our Trespass issue: www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2026/3/...

"And perhaps it is this idea of coming from afar, this ability to always see something as if for the first time, which helps us cherish even the landscapes we are most familiar with." Pilgrims by Jamie Lin from our latest issue: www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

“I move slowly, deliberately, suddenly mindful that the cleats of my boots are overwriting the prickings of rabbits, crow prints, a fragment of a fox’s story told in the early light.” “The Letter” by @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social in our Palimpsest issue: www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

We are open for submissions again! Send us your prose and poetry about The End of the World by the end of March. More details here: www.elsewhere-journal.com/submissions

We are open for submissions again! Send us your prose and poetry about The End of the World by the end of March. More details here: www.elsewhere-journal.com/submissions

The joy of the night train. The magic of crossing countries and continents through the darkness and why the aim is not only the destination but the pleasure of the journey itself. My essay for The Winding Trail: the-winding-trail.com/2025/07/25/t...

The joy of the night train

The magic of crossing countries and continents through the darkness and why the aim is not only the destination but the pleasure of the journey itself.

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For our “Palimpsest” issue, our editor @marcelkrueger.bsky.social wrote about @julianhoffman.bsky.social’s wonderful book “Lifelines” and the traces of the Greek Civil War in the topography of the Prespa basin. www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

On Saturday I'll be reading a new piece inspired by Christa Wolf at this fantastic event, after @katyderbyshire.bsky.social @paulscraton.bsky.social and Alex Wells discuss the grande dame. sites.google.com/view/mayroec...

“She waited for her train on the platform, lolling in the remains of the daylight. It’s true what they say—or is it because they say it that it is true—that America offers itself to the lonely.” “A Day in Hartford” by @emacourt.bsky.social in “Palimpsest”: www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

A Day in Hartford — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place

By Elsa Court The morning train from New Haven to Hartford, Connecticut, was air-conditioned like public transportation only is in America. The visiting scholar had anticipated this and was wearing ...

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Over the next weeks we’ll feature the wonderful poetry & prose published in our “Palimpsest” issue. The first is “A82” by @fiij20.bsky.social. “I love the places that are crowded not with humans but with centuries, wildlife and the forces of nature.” www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

I have often been Elsewhere. This time, it's along the A82, watching the forces of nature rewriting the landscape. www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

A82 — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place

By Fiona M Jones The snowgates open in spring, giving access across the Highlands towards Fort William.

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Very pleased to have my creative nonfiction story ‘Ag-Li-NaNO3’ published in the latest issue of @elsewherejournal.bsky.social. Thank you to Anna and Marcel and all at Elsewhere. You can read it here: www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

Ag – Li – NaNO3 — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place

By P.W. Lewis When it was his turn to cook, there were many things Rob didn’t know. At the age of forty-five, he should have had time to learn something, but he knew next to nothing. He knew nothin...

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5 questions with @elsewherejournal.bsky.social www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2026/1/...

Five Questions for... Becca Grady — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place

We continue our series of occasional short interviews with contributors and friends of Elsewhere with Becca Grady, whose writing featured in our Twilight issue.  What does home mean to you? ...

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Over on the website, we are glad to share with you the latest in our series of occasional short interviews with Elsewhere contributor Becca Grady. The photo is from the Sandia Mountains looking down onto Albuquerque, New Mexico, US. www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2026/1/...

As an early Christmas present for you (and ourselves), we are happy to launch our final 2025 issue: Palimpsest. It features essays, stories & poems from and about places like Kolkata, Oslo, Leicester, the Prespa Lakes in Greece or the A82 in Scotland. www.elsewhere-journal.com/elsewhere-pa...

"It was only my curiosity and my life-long interest in people who choose to live alone in remote places that prevented me from walking on by." Jean Luc by Barry Smith, from our latest issue: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

“These are the things I live for and think about when I sit in the caravan of my desk life – when the storms are slapping the plastic against my natural under shell.” Read “The Whimbrel” by Katherine Abbott in “Adrift”: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

If you know someone who would fancy a book of short stories praised by Claire-Louise Bennett, Eimear McBride, Kevin Barry, Sam Lipsyte, Sinéad Gleeson and Max Porter, mine is available from Transit Books. www.transitbooks.org/books/darker