Otherwise Magazine

31/12/2024

Safe Passages

In this powerful story, John Fadhili finds his way to safety and remembers the home he left behind.

"we knew we had to keep moving forward together"

https://www.otherwisemag.com/safe-passages

19/12/2024

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT

In this story, Akili Nestor Olengo navigates his emerging independence and the love he feels for his family

https://www.otherwisemag.com/walking-away

16/12/2024

JUNCTIONS - Stories from Nakivale Refugee Settlement

In this new issue, we explore the intersections where one experience terminates and gives way to another

In collaboration with Elite Humanitarian service team, Stone Soup Magazine - funded by Wenner-Gren Foundation

Curated by Laura Moran

In this issue we explore junctions – the intersections where one experience terminates and gives way to another – through the writings and art of young people in Nakivale Refugee Settlement

12/12/2024

!! JUNCTIONS IS OUT!!

In this issue, we explore junctions – the intersections where one experience terminates and gives way to another – through the writings and art of young people in Nakivale Refugee Settlement.

Curated by Laura Moran

https://otherwisemag.com/junctions

To know more about "Junctions" and the collaborations that made it possible

Check out the editor's note by Laura Moran

"At the junction. Stories from Nakivale Refugee Settlement": https://www.otherwisemag.com/at-the-junction

Illustration by Charles Shika Safina

26/11/2024

Over 55 authors narrating struggles, bodies, ruptures movements and intimacies, work and belonging, things happening accidentally, fragments of existence, memories and what is to tell stories through someone else's eyes.

https://otherwisemag.com/pastissues

25/11/2024

Meet the author: GROZNY

"We are a nation of doddering fools who will burn the entire world to maintain comfortable suburbs"

An interview with Otherwise creative non-fiction and memoir editor Laura Moran

https://www.otherwisemag.com/interviews/grozny

22/11/2024

We are very bad at remembering our birthday. But yes, we turned 4 (!) this November

Happy birthday to OtherwiseMag

Here we have published so far:
https://otherwisemag.com/pastissues

and our latest issue Homeliness

https://otherwisemag.com/homeliness

22/11/2024

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT

Fu***ff, Florida

In this story, GROZNY clings to the concrete of apartment walls as despair closes in.

https://otherwisemag.com/f**k-off-florida

Photo Credit: Camilla Urso

13/11/2024

Meet the author: Hannah Saal

"Fiction is a great place to explore the quiet ways people love"

An interview with Otherwise fiction and non-fiction editor Niharika Pandit

https://www.otherwisemag.com/interview/meet-the-author%3A-hannah-saal

08/11/2024

Friday reading?

Check out our latest story

Hannah Saal finds respite outside the confines of home.

https://www.otherwisemag.com/the-stop

Photo credit: Ilaria Serpi

30/10/2024

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT

In this new story, Hannah Saal finds respite outside the confines of home.

"The line wasn’t long"

Photo credits: Ilaria Serpi

https://otherwisemag.com/the-stop

17/10/2024

'I love his roots, and his dark, deep tone of green'

17/10/2024

Meet the author: Hilal Alkan

An interview with editor Laura Moran

"With living, photosynthesizing plants to observe closely, these metaphors become even more poignant and precise"

https://www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-author-hilal-alkan

14/10/2024

Our magazine is a labour of love. Your support will ensure its longevity.

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Our magazine is a labour of love, but it comes with costs. We are committed to continuing OtherwiseMag for as long as possible, and your support will ensure its longevity.

14/10/2024

have you seen our latest story?

"He is my grandpa’s rubber tree"

In this story, Hilal Alkan traces the familiar path of a rubber tree.

'I love his roots, and his dark, deep tone of green'

10/10/2024

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT

Grandpa’s rubber tree

In this story Hilal Alkan traces the familiar path of a rubber tree.

"I love his roots, and his dark, deep tone of green"

https://www.otherwisemag.com/granpas-rubber-tree

30/09/2024

Meet the author: Navneet Bhullar

"This poem is a refuge, a grief shelter which propelled me emotionally towards some light."

https://otherwisemag.com/meet-the-author-navneet-bhullar

And her poem: https://otherwisemag.com/from-my-room-in-nocelle

'This poem is a refuge, a grief shelter which propelled me emotionally towards some light.'