Elsewhere. A Journal of Place

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

“The largest covered historic market in the world, with about 13 kilometers of stores, some dating back to the 14th century, it has almost been destroyed; each doorway of rubble representing a destroyed business, income and family.” Janet MacDonald on Syria: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

Honoured to have this essay about my grandparents and the German experience of displacement, exile and migration in the mighty @thediasporist.bsky.social. Sincere thanks to @juliabosson.bsky.social & @rmiecz.bsky.social for all the work put into it. thediasporist.de/east-prussia...

"What is the fundamental source of our longing? And what does it really mean to return home?" Read Jos Sinnott's essay on the idea of home from our latest issue: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

"Today there is no horizon. The glassy grey water blends indefinitely into the moist grey air and, with nothing fixed to focus on, it's difficult to keep a clear head. I feel as if the mist is seeping into me." www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

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

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

“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/...

“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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

“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/...

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/...

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/...