The theme for Issue 4, to be published in March, is, “I want to change skin: tear the old one from me.” The visual prompt is this photograph by Claude Cahun:
Submissions for Issue 4 are not required to respond to the theme or prompt, but we give preference to work that does so. Please remember that responses to the theme or prompt should not be literal. You do not have to mention (or depict) the theme, or visual prompt, specifically. These are offered as inspiration only. Please read the Theme & Prompt page for more information.
Submissions are always open but the reading period for Issue 4 is February 1-13. Responses will go out between Feb 14 and 28.
he/him – Editor of Exist Otherwise. Poet and photographer. Survivor of CPTSD from childhood emotional and sexual abuse. cc bovarisme is a pseudonym and my avatar is a self-portrait of the gender non-conforming French artist, Claude Cahun. If you want to know more about me you may use the submission form or send email to existotherwise at gmail dot com.