Elsewhere. A Journal of Place

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...

Also a quick reminder that there are a few free slots available in @marcelkrueger.bsky.social’s “Here&Elsewhere” place writing course that kicks off in Berlin next week, which comes with a chance to publish in Elsewhere!

Will is also on Bluesky as @viljamsmauhuds.bsky.social!

In A Strange Land Again — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place We’re delighted to publish an excerpt from the latest book of Latvian writer Vilis Kasims. Svešuma grāmata, which could be translated as “The Book of Strangeness”, is a “novel in essays”, largely non-...

We’re delighted to publish an excerpt from the latest book of Latvian writer Vilis Kasims, Svešuma grāmata, “The Book of Strangeness”. Translation is by Will Mawhood, editor of @deepbaltic.bsky.social. Read "In A Strange Land Again": www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2025/5/...

Written after a conversation at John B's in Listowel and first published in @elsewherejournal.bsky.social, "Anger is a fishing trawler" is today's poem-a-day pick over at @versedaily.bsky.social! www.versedaily.org/2025/angeris...

Our editor Marcel is teaching a 6-week place writing course in Berlin this summer where all participants have the chance to publish in Elsewhere upon completion.

Please help @paulscraton.bsky.social raise funds for the Pahar Trust, he will literally climb mountains to do it.

Our editor @marcelkrueger.bsky.social is at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn in northern Poland today to kick off a special translation issue that we’ll publish together with the German and English students here. Watch this space!

Last but definitely not least from our Trespass issue...!
This short essay by Julia Bennett reflects on visits to Antony Gormley art installations in the North West and South East of England ... Who belongs and who is trespassing?
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Ancient Secrets: Poems from the landscape of South Armagh by Martin Cromie...
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'River Tweed' by regular Elsewhere contributor, Fiona M Jones
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Fiona writes short dark fiction, nature-themed CNF and sometimes poetry. Her work is published in literary magazines and anthologies everywhere except Antarctica.

Our latest issue features four poems of trespass by Alistair Noon
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