Elsewhere. A Journal of Place

Over the next weeks we’ll feature the wonderful poetry & prose published in our “Palimpsest” issue. The first is “A82” by @fiij20.bsky.social.
“I love the places that are crowded not with humans but with centuries, wildlife and the forces of nature.” www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

A82 — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place By Fiona M Jones The snowgates open in spring, giving access across the Highlands towards Fort William.

I have often been Elsewhere. This time, it's along the A82, watching the forces of nature rewriting the landscape. www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

Ag – Li – NaNO3 — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place By P.W. Lewis When it was his turn to cook, there were many things Rob didn’t know. At the age of forty-five, he should have had time to learn something, but he knew next to nothing. He knew nothin...

Very pleased to have my creative nonfiction story ‘Ag-Li-NaNO3’ published in the latest issue of @elsewherejournal.bsky.social. Thank you to Anna and Marcel and all at Elsewhere. You can read it here: www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

Five Questions for... Becca Grady — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place We continue our series of occasional short interviews with contributors and friends of Elsewhere with Becca Grady, whose writing featured in our Twilight issue.  What does home mean to you? ...

5 questions with @elsewherejournal.bsky.social

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Over on the website, we are glad to share with you the latest in our series of occasional short interviews with Elsewhere contributor Becca Grady.
The photo is from the Sandia Mountains looking down onto Albuquerque, New Mexico, US.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2026/1/...

As an early Christmas present for you (and ourselves), we are happy to launch our final 2025 issue: Palimpsest. It features essays, stories & poems from and about places like Kolkata, Oslo, Leicester, the Prespa Lakes in Greece or the A82 in Scotland. www.elsewhere-journal.com/elsewhere-pa...

"It was only my curiosity and my life-long interest in people who choose to live alone in remote places that prevented me from walking on by."
Jean Luc by Barry Smith, from our latest issue:
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

“These are the things I live for and think about when I sit in the caravan of my desk life – when the storms are slapping the plastic against my natural under shell.” Read “The Whimbrel” by Katherine Abbott in “Adrift”: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

If you know someone who would fancy a book of short stories praised by Claire-Louise Bennett, Eimear McBride, Kevin Barry, Sam Lipsyte, Sinéad Gleeson and Max Porter, mine is available from Transit Books. www.transitbooks.org/books/darker

“The largest covered historic market in the world, with about 13 kilometers of stores, some dating back to the 14th century, it has almost been destroyed; each doorway of rubble representing a destroyed business, income and family.” Janet MacDonald on Syria: www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

East Prussia is Dead – the Diasporist My grandmother Cäcilie, who was born in 1923 and whom we called Cilly for short, was a short, rotund woman full of energy and with a roaring, infectious laugh.

Honoured to have this essay about my grandparents and the German experience of displacement, exile and migration in the mighty @thediasporist.bsky.social. Sincere thanks to @juliabosson.bsky.social & @rmiecz.bsky.social for all the work put into it. thediasporist.de/east-prussia...

"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:
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

"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.

www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

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.'

www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

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."

www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

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.

www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

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.

www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...

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.
www.elsewhere-journal.com/adrift/2025/...