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Exist Otherwise

Exist Otherwise

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December 02, 2025

Submissions Are Almost Closed

November 23, 2025

Site Maintenance

November 18, 2025

Y'all Deserve an Award Today

Exist Otherwise is Social Media Post feature image

October 20, 2025

Exist Otherwise is Social Media

Submissions Are Open Post feature image

October 16, 2025

Submissions Are Open

Issue #16 is Live Post feature image

October 13, 2025

Issue #16 is Live

Close-up of a brown and white ferret with its tongue slightly out.

October 10, 2025

Non-Binary

Self-drawn image of two abstract life forms.

October 10, 2025

Foreigner Before a Woman*

Portrait of Golda Grais wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket

October 10, 2025

dove to cunt

manual of becoming Post feature image

October 10, 2025

manual of becoming

Very dark, grainy, low contrast photograph of an androgynous person with a cheroot in their mouth.

October 10, 2025

The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia

October 10, 2025

overstimulation of an empire’s fall

The author takes a photo of herself in the bathroom mirror.

October 10, 2025

Pretty Little Shades of Gray

Illustration of the character Alis from the video game Phantasy Star saying "kiss kiss".

October 10, 2025

Sexual Chemistry

Deborah Douglas Wilbrink sits on Spanish author's lap in Madrid library-live, mural & statue.

October 10, 2025

Inundated

October 10, 2025

Let Me Be Everything

Very dark, grainy, low contrast photograph of an androgynous person with a cheroot in their mouth.

October 10, 2025

“vous avez brûlé une sainte”

Poet Joshua St. Claire is standing in a forest. He is smiling with a brown beard.

October 10, 2025

The Friedmann Equations

A picture of Shivani in a green shirt-jacket getting ready to devour a plate of food.

October 10, 2025

I’m at the casino and I want to

A photo of, poet, Lyra Button wearing a long black skirt and a corset.

October 10, 2025

My life/ /My life for The Canon:

A white woman with long brown hair wearing a button down shirt with colorful squares on it, posing against a background of pine trees. She is smiling, her index finger alongside her chin.

October 10, 2025

Lactation/Laceration

Alex J. Tunney with his head framed by the yellow leaves of a tree.

October 10, 2025

Contain Myself

Responses for Issue 16 are Complete Post feature image

September 30, 2025

Responses for Issue 16 are Complete

Issue 15 is Live Post feature image

July 13, 2025

Issue 15 is Live

Issue 15 Slight Delay Post feature image

July 12, 2025

Issue 15 Slight Delay

The poet enjoying her vacation in a field of greenery

July 10, 2025

Civilians of Collapse

This author photo is a mirror image taken on June 19th, 2025.

July 10, 2025

Winter Thunder

Mark Blickley, New York City

July 10, 2025

Heads-Up Dream for Peace

to all student protestors a year ago Post feature image

July 10, 2025

to all student protestors a year ago

Indie Journalist: Melissa Ann Argay

July 10, 2025

Trans-Illumination

A young woman wearing glasses, with purple hair tied up in a bun. She is smiling and her head is at a 3/4 angle.

July 10, 2025

History Never Known

July 10, 2025

Experiential Ecotone: Hashimoto’s Disease & Gestational Diabetes

The Boxing Match Post feature image

July 10, 2025

The Boxing Match