?Help the Other Cause?
Other Magazine Needs You!
Now reading for issue #9, as yet unthemed.
What we want:
At Other, we print articles and art which question the idea that your identity and tastes are as simple as checkboxes on a questionnaire. Our editorial format most closely resembles that of a general interest magazine like The New Yorker, Salon.com or Harpers, with a focus on genuinely challenging concepts and scathing social criticism.
Other seeks essays, fiction, satire, investigative journalism, cartoons, and art which reject traditional categories, both in style and content.
Possible topics might include: the trouble with target marketing, going beyond party politics, racial blurring, subversive media and technology, rebel futurism, queerness, anti-authoritarianism, non-traditional families, and pop culture. We like writing that combines critical thought with personal experience, but memoirs and personal essays don't excite us. Regular features of every issue include an anti-tourist travel column, profiles of people who are "other," as well as short write-ups of unusual news. Every issue will also include several longer essays and one piece each of micro and macro fiction.
For non-fiction pieces, please send a query before submitting. For all others, just please send it on. We're particularly looking for:
- Reporting or investigative journalism, with multiple sources or interviews. 1500-4500 words.
- Essays that consider a social or political phenomenon in detail. 1500-4500 words.
- Short features about an experience that defies categories (yours or someone else's.) 300-800 words.
- Short fiction -- genre-crossing or experimental fiction especially welcome. 2000-5000 words.
- Short short fiction. 300-1500 words.
- Poetry (any length), comics (1-4 pages) and art.
For issue 9, non-fiction pitches are due July 25, 2005. Completed non-fiction pieces, and all other content, are due August 20, 2005.
Please send non-fiction submissions to:
Please send fiction submissions to:
Please send artwork to:
Please send poetry to:
Please send comics to
At Other, we print articles and art which question the idea that your identity and tastes are as simple as checkboxes on a questionnaire. Our editorial format most closely resembles that of a general interest magazine like The New Yorker, Salon.com or Harpers, with a focus on genuinely challenging concepts and scathing social criticism.
Other seeks essays, fiction, satire, investigative journalism, cartoons, and art which reject traditional categories, both in style and content.
Possible topics might include: the trouble with target marketing, going beyond party politics, racial blurring, subversive media and technology, rebel futurism, queerness, anti-authoritarianism, non-traditional families, and pop culture. We like writing that combines critical thought with personal experience, but memoirs and personal essays don't excite us. Regular features of every issue include an anti-tourist travel column, profiles of people who are "other," as well as short write-ups of unusual news. Every issue will also include several longer essays and one piece each of micro and macro fiction.
As a small start-up magazine, other cannot afford to pay for content at this time, but we will provide copies of the magazine to all contributors. We ask for one-time rights to your work, and all rights revert to you after publication.
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