OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE!

We're steadily ticking up, up, up towards our $13,000 MORE ART!! stretch goal. Help us add interior art type pieces such as fun dividers and headers to each story per issue! Which allows us to hire more queer artists!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

A cow is lifted into space by a UFO tractor beam. Two little ghost friends are following. The cow's thought bubble reads, "$5,140!"

25% THERE!! 🍾🎉 That means we're only 5% away from opening to NONFICTION SUBMISSIONS for the first time EVER! Thank you all so much for your support 💜👽

🌙🐄 Come fly to the moon with us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

We're still trying to raise $246 this year to cover expenses, if you're feeling generous.

We'll never charge a submission fee, and we pay our writers.

Your help will also ensure that we can bring on a guest editor in the new year, to avoid that whole 'monolithic voice' business 💛🖤

Thank you. 🐝

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

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behold!

Info for our Backer Goals! 50, 100, 150, 200, AND 250 Backers are unlocked! All backer goals are in rainbow with an open lock over a blurred version of OTHERSIDE banner art in purple, with a blurred floating fantastical head on the right.

WE HIT 250 BACKERS!! +1 exclusive sticker for everyone who either added a sticker or backed at a tier with sticker rewards! That is our last backer goal!

We're in awe that over 250 of you have supported us. Thank you!! Sticker reveal coming soon 💜

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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

neon hemlock logo novellas open for subissions october 15-30 most interested in queer speculative work all welcome to submit b&w staticy bg image

whoa october is around the corner!

reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.

more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

PS: We’re ONE backer away from our 250 backer goal, which unlocks an exclusive Year 1 Kickstarter campaign sticker for everyone who either added on stickers or backed at a tier with stickers.

Just saying, extremely close to that goal!! More stickers? 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! Well, it’s been a week since we launched, and what an amazing week it’s been! To recap, in Week 1, you…

It’s been a wild first week of our Kickstarter! As we go into Week 2, we wanted to update with all the stretch goals we hit in Week 1, what stretch goals are upcoming (MORE ART!! +1 REPRINTS!) as well as generally scream in appreciation.

Read the update here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Image is a blurb from a Patreon member, Christine Hanolsy. Text is over a blurred version of our purple banner art. Text says: Why do you support OTHERSIDE? Christine’s quote is in reply as follows: As an OTHERSIDE Patreon supporter, I’m enjoying the monthly newsletters and the Discord server. I’ve never found such a fiercely devoted bunch of fans - and the magazine isn’t even out yet! Othersiders are rabid readers, avid cheerleaders, and, yes, utter chaos gremlins, which makes the server the perfect place to unwind and find the next amazing thing to read.

We asked members of our community why they support OTHERSIDE... and their responses made us cry, so we’re sharing them with you. This one is from @christinehanolsy.com, who has been lovingly yelling about us this whole time. Help us keep building this space:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Writing with resistance, imagining a better future. October 4–5, 2025. Rainbow Space Magic. Logo: A fountain pen draws a circle around the letters RSM, ending in a little flying dragon and a ringed planet. Background: An expansive starry sky.

Did you miss this year's #RainbowSpaceMagic this weekend?

No problem! Recordings of the keynote with @sammaggs.bsky.social, the panels, readings, & the chat with @othersidespec.bsky.social are all on our YouTube channel

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

SALON SINISTER Salon Sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience through horror.

Read it here for freeeeeeee OR support queer horror creators by buying a real life no-foolin' physical ACTUAL book today! Both options are valid, just like you 😘

Over a hazy purple background, there's the header "stretch goals." Five goals, of $6900, $8300, $9700, $11000, $12000 are now illuminated in rainbow with a picture of an open lock next to them. The remaining goals of $13000 (More Art!) and $14000 (Nonfiction) and $15000 (+1 Reprints!) show a closed lock next to them.

YOU ALL DID IT! WE HIT OUR REPRINT STRETCH GOAL! Our next stretch goal is MORE ART!! This is so much more than we dared hope possible so thank you 💜

Beyond more art we also have nonfiction followed by an additional reprint per issue!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

YOU DID IT! We are at $12,000 exactly!! REPRINTS REPRINTS!!

Post by @othersidespec 💬 0  🔁 5  ❤️ 6 · Hello, hello! We are OTHERSIDE! OTHERSIDE is a quarterly queer-led literary magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists. We will open for su…

We’re on Tumblr now! Updates will be a bit sparse until we start publishing issues but if you want to share our Kickstarter around there, we would appreciate it!

👀 www.tumblr.com/othersidespe...

We are now one subscriber away from unlocking reprints!

OTHERSIDE is a quarterly queer-led literary magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists. Their Kickstarter, to fund their first year, launched on September 29th and they will open for submissions in January 2026. Chill & Chat with OTHERSIDE

If you missed our chill & chat at @spacemagiccon.bsky.social the recording is now live! Check it out for a peek at our magazine inspirations, Kickstarter prep—and more!

👀 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEz_...
💜 Then go register for today's panels: www.rainbowspacemagic.org/

Make that $69 away from reprints, which is very very NICE! AND we're nearing our final backer goal—we're six backers away from a bonus sticker added to all sticker purchases!!

Help us get to reprints AND extra stickers? We're so close!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

We're $301 from our reprints stretch goal! If we hit that, every issue will include a reprint of a queer story no longer available online. Help us archive queer stories and support queer creators in a time of censorship!

Learn more about our plans here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

@apexmag.bsky.social is an award-winning magazine that publishes darker spec fic. They're a fabulous magazine and were a huge help with our initial fundraiser. Help them fund 2026!

@othersidespec.bsky.social is a new magazine for queer spec fic, and we're excited that it's already funded its first two years! With your help, they can add reprints and non-fiction to the magazine.

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

We're $301 from our reprints stretch goal! If we hit that, every issue will include a reprint of a queer story no longer available online. Help us archive queer stories and support queer creators in a time of censorship!

Learn more about our plans here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Rainbow Space Magic – the craft of writing queer SFF

Thank you SO much to everyone who came to our chill & chat at Rainbow Space Magic. And thank you @spacemagiccon.bsky.social for inviting us! Now go enjoy the next event—When Queerness Is Not a Plot Point, the first of many awesome panels!

Register (for free!) here: www.rainbowspacemagic.org/

Submissions Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

Remember remember this 1st of October
Your speculative fiction plot
I see no reason
This submission season
Not to add to the ones that we’ve got!

(Submissions are open until the 15th of October) translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Rainbow Space Magic has begun! And we have a chill & chat in THIRTY MINUTES! It’s free to register, come hang out with us and then go enjoy the rest of this wonderful queer virtual convention!

www.rainbowspacemagic.org/

Rainbow Space Magic starts TOMORROW!

AND we have a fun chill & chat tomorrow, Saturday October 4 @ 11am Eastern Time! Come talk with us about queer stories as well as the magazine, ask any questions you might have—then attend the rest of this amazing lineup of panels!!

www.rainbowspacemagic.org/

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

New day, new stretch goal! @othersidespec.bsky.social is only $800 away from unlocking reprints of no-longer-online or out-of-print queer stories. (No solicitations ever, $100 flat fee for reprints.) If you’re as excited about the thought of bringing back lost queer stories as we are, check it out!

well we think YOU'RE wonderful and also put a lot of thought, effort, attention, and sincerity into your work soooo 💜💜

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to OTHERSIDE Poetry Editor @angelvleal.bsky.social!! "The Witch Recalls Her Craft" is such a beautiful piece, we remain in awe of Angel's work always 💜

Over a hazy purple background, there's the header "stretch goals." The first three goals, of $6900, $8300, $9700 and $11000 are now illuminated in rainbow with a picture of an open lock next to them. The remaining goals of $12000 (Reprints!) and $13000 (More Art!) and $14000 (Nonfiction!) show a closed lock next to them.

WE DID IT!! WE HIT OUR $11K STRETCH GOAL—we are officially funded for TWO YEARS! You all did that in FOUR DAYS. We're emotional at the resounding support for queer stories, poems, and art. Thank you 💜

AND we revealed a further stretch goal as well! 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...