Elsewhere. A Journal of Place
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Elsewhere is a European journal of place dedicated to writing and visual art that explores the idea of place in all its forms.
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Submissions are open for our next issue on the theme of 'Palimpsest'. Find details of what we are looking for and how to submit on our website
www.elsewhere-journal.com/submissions
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October 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Submissions are open for our next issue on the theme of 'Palimpsest'. Find details of what we are looking for and how to submit on our website
www.elsewhere-journal.com/submissions
www.elsewhere-journal.com/submissions
Poems by Todd Campbell. From our latest issue Adrift:
The way broken things catch the light.
From a distance, we must have appeared
as mourners or mendicants. Looking back
I see how little we took in.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
The way broken things catch the light.
From a distance, we must have appeared
as mourners or mendicants. Looking back
I see how little we took in.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
October 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Poems by Todd Campbell. From our latest issue Adrift:
The way broken things catch the light.
From a distance, we must have appeared
as mourners or mendicants. Looking back
I see how little we took in.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
The way broken things catch the light.
From a distance, we must have appeared
as mourners or mendicants. Looking back
I see how little we took in.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
From our Adrift issue a series of photographs of remote working by @rachelturney
'There is so much beauty in the daily. Don’t forget to stop and capture it, even if it’s just a picture of your lover working.'
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
'There is so much beauty in the daily. Don’t forget to stop and capture it, even if it’s just a picture of your lover working.'
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
September 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
From our Adrift issue a series of photographs of remote working by @rachelturney
'There is so much beauty in the daily. Don’t forget to stop and capture it, even if it’s just a picture of your lover working.'
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
'There is so much beauty in the daily. Don’t forget to stop and capture it, even if it’s just a picture of your lover working.'
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
Olga Bubich read “Love that Cures” at the DAAD Artists “Save a Book” bazaar in Berlin today. We published the fantastic essay last week: www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2025/9/...
September 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Olga Bubich read “Love that Cures” at the DAAD Artists “Save a Book” bazaar in Berlin today. We published the fantastic essay last week: www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2025/9/...
Next from our Adrift issue, from a road trip in North Wales by Sam Francis...
"On the edge of the shingle stands a tumbledown house wrapped almost entirely in green. One day I want to live in a green house so wild I can no longer get out of the door."
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
"On the edge of the shingle stands a tumbledown house wrapped almost entirely in green. One day I want to live in a green house so wild I can no longer get out of the door."
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
September 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Next from our Adrift issue, from a road trip in North Wales by Sam Francis...
"On the edge of the shingle stands a tumbledown house wrapped almost entirely in green. One day I want to live in a green house so wild I can no longer get out of the door."
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
"On the edge of the shingle stands a tumbledown house wrapped almost entirely in green. One day I want to live in a green house so wild I can no longer get out of the door."
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
We at Elsewhere are proud to publish “Love that Cures” as the first in a series of essays on memory and space by Belarusian essayist Olga Bubich today! www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2025/9/...
September 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We at Elsewhere are proud to publish “Love that Cures” as the first in a series of essays on memory and space by Belarusian essayist Olga Bubich today! www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2025/9/...
“If whales, harpoons and swordfish
make you crazy to go to sea,
then go on, Ishmael, go to the fire
to rid yourself of this smoke”
You can find three extraordinary poems by Rena J. Mosteirin in our latest issue “Adrift”. www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
make you crazy to go to sea,
then go on, Ishmael, go to the fire
to rid yourself of this smoke”
You can find three extraordinary poems by Rena J. Mosteirin in our latest issue “Adrift”. www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
September 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
“If whales, harpoons and swordfish
make you crazy to go to sea,
then go on, Ishmael, go to the fire
to rid yourself of this smoke”
You can find three extraordinary poems by Rena J. Mosteirin in our latest issue “Adrift”. www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
make you crazy to go to sea,
then go on, Ishmael, go to the fire
to rid yourself of this smoke”
You can find three extraordinary poems by Rena J. Mosteirin in our latest issue “Adrift”. www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
“More gnarled pine trees lined his route – twisted and battered by the wind – their broken limbs littering the field like piles of white and splintered dinosaur bones in the aftermath of an apocalypse.”
“Adrift” by Nick Paul: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
“Adrift” by Nick Paul: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
September 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“More gnarled pine trees lined his route – twisted and battered by the wind – their broken limbs littering the field like piles of white and splintered dinosaur bones in the aftermath of an apocalypse.”
“Adrift” by Nick Paul: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
“Adrift” by Nick Paul: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
“Maybe one day I will forget the memory of that house like one forgets a childhood dream. Where would that house go, then? In whose head? Who would dream of that house?“
Andleeb Shadani wrote about the memories of a house in Lucknow. www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
Andleeb Shadani wrote about the memories of a house in Lucknow. www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
August 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“Maybe one day I will forget the memory of that house like one forgets a childhood dream. Where would that house go, then? In whose head? Who would dream of that house?“
Andleeb Shadani wrote about the memories of a house in Lucknow. www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
Andleeb Shadani wrote about the memories of a house in Lucknow. www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
New poetry by Katie Boord from our latest issue. Katie is an emerging poet from Kansas. She works in a geology lab by day, and sings in an indie rock band by night. Her poems have been published in Heart of Flesh Literary Journal and Poetry Super Highway.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
August 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New poetry by Katie Boord from our latest issue. Katie is an emerging poet from Kansas. She works in a geology lab by day, and sings in an indie rock band by night. Her poems have been published in Heart of Flesh Literary Journal and Poetry Super Highway.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
We published an essay by Hope Yancey in our Adrift issue about a visit to the Venus flytraps in North Carolina, one of the few areas where these plants grow native in the wild.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
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August 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We published an essay by Hope Yancey in our Adrift issue about a visit to the Venus flytraps in North Carolina, one of the few areas where these plants grow native in the wild.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
In our latest issue Giselle Bader traces pathways through forests past and present. Giselle is a writer and historian living in Scotland. Her writing and research focus on the history of pilgrimage, walking rituals, and our spiritual connection to place.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
August 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
In our latest issue Giselle Bader traces pathways through forests past and present. Giselle is a writer and historian living in Scotland. Her writing and research focus on the history of pilgrimage, walking rituals, and our spiritual connection to place.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
“Why did I pick up my phone and look at it?
I’ve forgotten”
Read Jos Sinnott’s poem “I Don’t Know” in our latest issue “Adrift”: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
I’ve forgotten”
Read Jos Sinnott’s poem “I Don’t Know” in our latest issue “Adrift”: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
July 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
“Why did I pick up my phone and look at it?
I’ve forgotten”
Read Jos Sinnott’s poem “I Don’t Know” in our latest issue “Adrift”: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
I’ve forgotten”
Read Jos Sinnott’s poem “I Don’t Know” in our latest issue “Adrift”: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
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My trip to South Park Street Cemetery now on Elsewhere.
In her essay “Cemetery: A Colonial Time Portal” for our latest issue “Adrift”, @omnivorescientist.bsky.social explores Kolkata’s South Park Street Cemetery and its colonial dead: “A dizzying melancholy sweeps through these rows of tombs…” www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
July 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
My trip to South Park Street Cemetery now on Elsewhere.
For our latest issue “Adrift”, Kate Chandler wrote us and you a love letter to the Irish Sea and its travellers with her essay “Sruth”:
“Holyhead port is shattered, broken by Storm Darragh. No ferries dock or depart.” www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
“Holyhead port is shattered, broken by Storm Darragh. No ferries dock or depart.” www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
July 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
For our latest issue “Adrift”, Kate Chandler wrote us and you a love letter to the Irish Sea and its travellers with her essay “Sruth”:
“Holyhead port is shattered, broken by Storm Darragh. No ferries dock or depart.” www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
“Holyhead port is shattered, broken by Storm Darragh. No ferries dock or depart.” www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
In her essay “Cemetery: A Colonial Time Portal” for our latest issue “Adrift”, @omnivorescientist.bsky.social explores Kolkata’s South Park Street Cemetery and its colonial dead: “A dizzying melancholy sweeps through these rows of tombs…” www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
July 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
In her essay “Cemetery: A Colonial Time Portal” for our latest issue “Adrift”, @omnivorescientist.bsky.social explores Kolkata’s South Park Street Cemetery and its colonial dead: “A dizzying melancholy sweeps through these rows of tombs…” www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
We are delighted to publish three poems by Nicola Healey whose work we also featured in our 'Twilight' issue. Nicola's first pamphlet, A Newer Wilderness, was published by Dare-Gale Press in 2024 and won the Michael Marks Poetry Award.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
July 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
We are delighted to publish three poems by Nicola Healey whose work we also featured in our 'Twilight' issue. Nicola's first pamphlet, A Newer Wilderness, was published by Dare-Gale Press in 2024 and won the Michael Marks Poetry Award.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
We are delighted to publish an extract from 'Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group' by @rgransden.bsky.social
The novella is published by Tangerine Press, and you can read an extract and find out more about Rebecca's work in our latest Adrift issue.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
The novella is published by Tangerine Press, and you can read an extract and find out more about Rebecca's work in our latest Adrift issue.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
July 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
We are delighted to publish an extract from 'Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group' by @rgransden.bsky.social
The novella is published by Tangerine Press, and you can read an extract and find out more about Rebecca's work in our latest Adrift issue.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
The novella is published by Tangerine Press, and you can read an extract and find out more about Rebecca's work in our latest Adrift issue.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
We take a long-haul bus from Paris to Turin in the company of @benmorris.eu Read Ben's impressions of the journey's drift and distances...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
July 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We take a long-haul bus from Paris to Turin in the company of @benmorris.eu Read Ben's impressions of the journey's drift and distances...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
From our latest issue, poetry and photography by Lauren Michelle Levesque: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
"care and grief
seep into my clothes.
pull down the fabric,
loosen clasps,
separate seams."
"care and grief
seep into my clothes.
pull down the fabric,
loosen clasps,
separate seams."
July 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
From our latest issue, poetry and photography by Lauren Michelle Levesque: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
"care and grief
seep into my clothes.
pull down the fabric,
loosen clasps,
separate seams."
"care and grief
seep into my clothes.
pull down the fabric,
loosen clasps,
separate seams."
We are delighted to feature this work by Anastasia Koehler on the cover of our 'Adrift' issue. Anastasia's latest photo project documents objects carried by Ukrainian refugees during their escape in 2022 — exploring how their meaning has shifted through displacement.
July 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
We are delighted to feature this work by Anastasia Koehler on the cover of our 'Adrift' issue. Anastasia's latest photo project documents objects carried by Ukrainian refugees during their escape in 2022 — exploring how their meaning has shifted through displacement.
Our latest issue features an essay by @kathillauthor.bsky.social on migration and displacement and the material objects left behind. www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
June 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Our latest issue features an essay by @kathillauthor.bsky.social on migration and displacement and the material objects left behind. www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
In our latest issue we publish three poems by Susanna Lang. Read the poems and find out more about Susanna's work here: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
June 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
In our latest issue we publish three poems by Susanna Lang. Read the poems and find out more about Susanna's work here: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
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‘Elsewhere’ is an online journal of place and explores the idea of place in all its forms. Their latest issue is a collection of contributions on the theme of ‘Adrift’. Thank you to the editors for including an extract from my novel ‘Falling’. It’s the moment that young Jack runs away from home.
We are really proud to launch our latest issue “Adrift” today, with submissions of outstanding quality. Our cover is based on the photography “At the banks of the Oder” by Anastasia Koehler. We hope you join us on our small vessel, adrift before the tides. www.elsewhere-journal.com/elsewhere-ad...
June 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
‘Elsewhere’ is an online journal of place and explores the idea of place in all its forms. Their latest issue is a collection of contributions on the theme of ‘Adrift’. Thank you to the editors for including an extract from my novel ‘Falling’. It’s the moment that young Jack runs away from home.
We are happy to introduce a photo essay 'Seawilding' by Christina Riley featured in our latest issue:
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
June 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We are happy to introduce a photo essay 'Seawilding' by Christina Riley featured in our latest issue:
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...