Elsewhere. A Journal of Place

"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:
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"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."
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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

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.

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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.'

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.
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“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/...

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.
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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.
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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...
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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."

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/...

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/...

‘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:
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We are delighted to introduce the contributors to our latest issue of Elsewhere on the theme of Adrift.
Beginning with this piece by Morelle Sullivan, who is currently working on essays on writers with Baltic connections at a Writers Residency in Lithuania
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Extract from "Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group" — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place By Rebecca Gransden Tight roads, the verge gone wild in too quick a time, grass spread in a craze, strange zig zag stems, leaves mash with fronds, buds nod rot fruit and drop to make squelch meat ...

Read an extract lifted from Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group at the wonderful @elsewherejournal.bsky.social. Selected for the issue centred around the theme of ‘Adrift’, this is a section taken from the chapter titled ‘The Murmurers’. www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

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...