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Meet the author: Gwen Burnyeat
An interview with editor Rosa Sansone.
"the experiences people told me about took the form of stories that had longer roots than the recent political moment: they went back into the deeper history of their relationships
https://www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-author-gwen-burnyeat
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
Gwen Burnyeat writes of navigating deadly chasms in politics.
"He wasn’t with his father the day that the guerrilla kidnapped him"
https://www.otherwisemag.com/between-two-waters
close to land
close to home
close enough
Check out this powerful poem
Lost in the Pacific by
Before I was afraid of the ocean, / I’d swim in it
Meet the author: J.D. Isip
"When you get old enough, you realize the only one you are trying to outswim is you"
An interview with Otherwise creative non-fiction and memoir editor Laura Moran
https://www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-author-jd-isip
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
In this new poem, .d.isip swims out into the unknown.
"Before I was afraid of the ocean,
I’d swim in it"
https://www.otherwisemag.com/lost-in-the-pacific
Photo credit: Nicola Mazzuia
"It's truly incredible how something so fragile can maintain the balance between safety and danger until it can no longer do so"
Meet the authors Imran Sarihasan & Navjotpal Kaur
An interview with creative non-fiction and memoir editor Laura Moran.
'It's truly incredible how something so fragile can maintain the balance between safety and danger until it can no longer do so.'
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT!!
"I stood still"
In this story, Imran Sarihasan & Navjotpal Kaur depict a young man caught in stillness and war.
"It was 20 March 2003. Baghdad stood on the precipice of an abyss"
https://www.otherwisemag.com/i-stood-still
Photo credit: Nicola Mazzuia
RUPTURES IS OUT! OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT!
This issue is about ruptures, about the cracks that appear between us and our pasts, our futures and our selves.
Imran Sarihasan and Navjotpal Kaur depict a young man caught in stillness and war.
JD Isip swims out into the unknown.
Gwen Burnyeat writes of navigating deadly chasms in politics.
Bincy Mariya N tells of a chance encounter on the train home for Christmas.
Finally, Fran Mascia-Lees traces the silences in her father's story.
Ruptures is curated by Olivia Casagrande
Photo credits : Nicola Mazzuia
https://otherwisemag.com/ruptures
"In my quest for “newness”, there’s a contradiction in which I know that the past is a shard of myself no matter how hard I try to flee from it."
Meet the author : Daniel Orisaeke
'In my quest for “newness”, there’s a contradiction in which I know that the past is a shard of myself no matter how hard I try to flee from it.'
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
In this story, Daniel Orisaeke awakes to a new body holding on to past sensations.
"before hands
drown me into a sea of lemonade"
https://www.otherwisemag.com/i-die-like-waves
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If you find yourself in Birmingham on May 7, consider going to the opening event of // Street Smart, a visual project co-edited by our own Marco Di Nunzio on street hustling and the urban in a city, , affected by large-scale demolition
The opening event will take place Centrala and is organised in collaboration with the PRISM Photography Network
Arada // Street Smart - Artist Talk with Vanley Burke, Biruk Terrefe, Marco Di Nunzio and Adelaide Di Nunzio. Moderated by Anita Shervington
"So many of our profit oriented society and civilization's ills exist purely through negligence and persist through blaming victims and eschewing regulation or ameliorating."
Meet the author Jerome Berglund Photography
'So many of our profit oriented society and civilization's ills exist purely through negligence and persist through blaming victims and eschewing regulation or ameliorating'
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
Look Down
In this story Jerome Berglund Photography becomes witness to unfortunate daily encounters between bodies and objects.
https://otherwisemag.com/look-down
Meet the author Marina Srnka
An interview Otherwise creative non-fiction and memoir editor Laura Moran
"For me, the locked-down Bologna was like an empty carcass waiting to explode and scream its own bloody story."
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
Marína Srnka portrays bodies rejoining the forbidden outdoors
https://www.otherwisemag.com/bodies-in-space
"And there we were:
Roaming the empty streets"
Marina Srnka portrays bodies rejoining the forbidden outdoors.
Weekend reading?
50 stories about struggles, things happening accidentally and viceversa, memories, intimacies, becoming, work, fragments and movements
https://otherwisemag.com/pastissues
and our new issue BODIES: https://www.otherwisemag.com/bodies
Photo credit : Adelaide Di Nunzio photographer
Otherwise: a magazine of storytelling and ethnographic writing
Published on Otherwise Magazine (09/13/23): “Tomorrow’s Ken is an invitation to reflect on the humanity of those living within the American prison system.”
As part of Timothy Reed’s larger Tomorrow’s Ken project, Spoon Jackson—New Village Press co-author of By Heart (2010) and The Book of Judith (2022)—reflects on life before and within the California prison system, recites his original poetry (“Universe, “Beauty in Cell Bars,” Winter”), and shares his original drawings. This beautiful 8-minute composition of an interview is completed with Reed’s original music. Together, “Timothy Reed & Spoon Jackson nurture the power of poetry to tell what is to be a student of like and humanity while being incarcerated.”
In the image below is the first three lines of Spoon Jackson’s “Universe.” Visit this link to listen to the rest! https://www.otherwisemag.com/spoonjackson
Meet the author: Laci Felker
An interview with Otherwise creative non-fiction and memoir editor Laura Moran
"My spine is twisted and curved and there’s nothing I can do about it outside of take care of myself."
'My spine is twisted and curved and there’s nothing I can do about it outside of take care of myself. Now, if my hip hurts I adjust the way I walk (usually it involves a bit of a limp) and I keep going.'
!!!OUR NEW STORY IS OUT!!!
In this story .felker re-approaches the body through the changes it experiences in sickness
"It’s such a pain (literally)"
https://www.otherwisemag.com/its-such-a-pain-felker
Our own Di Nunzio will be presenting the work we do at OtherwiseMag tomorrow at the PhD Seminar series at the Department of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh - many thanks to Tanushree Kaushal and Kevin Donovan for the invitation.
Lots is happening at OtherwiseMag - an offer of storytelling workshops is also in the making. Always happy to introduce ourselves and tell us our stories. Get in touch!
MEET THE AUTHOR: Alejandra Pizarro Choy
https://www.otherwisemag.com/lelepizarrochoy
an interview with poetry editor Grace Zhou
"Through this poem I am pushing against gendered expectations of doing as we are told and accepting violence quietly, while speaking to the strength in resilience. Continuing to go on despite violence, like the land does."
'Through this poem I am pushing against gendered expectations of doing as we are told and accepting violence quietly, while speaking to the strength in resilience. Continuing to go on despite violence, like the land does.'
A world by bodies conjured
editor’s note by Heli Kora
"what happens when our undeniable ‘ownership’ of the body is challenged, be it externally by other bodies or internally by elements to us unseen?"
Editor's note for the Bodies issue of OtherwiseMag by Eleni Kotsira
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
Body/womb
Cuerpo/vientre
A poem by Alejandra Pizarro Choy
‘I am no dead soil waiting for your seed’ – ‘No soy tierra mu**ta esperando tu semilla’
https://www.otherwisemag.com/bodywomb
BODIES IS OUT - OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT
https://www.otherwisemag.com/bodies
This issue celebrates bodies; in their imperfect shape and finite nature. Bodies filling space, or struggling to situate themselves within it. Bodies defining times and by time bound. Alejandra Pizarro Choy reclaims the female body’s agency across public and private spaces. Laci Felker re-approaches the body through the changes it experiences in sickness. Marina Srnka portrays bodies rejoining the forbidden outdoors. Jerome Berglund becomes witness to unfortunate daily encounters between bodies and objects. Finally, Katie McCurdy challenges the impact of disability on the body’s potential.
The cover image for Bodies is by Letizia Bonanno
Bodies was curated by Eleni Kotsira
Stories were edited by Eleni Kotsira, Fatima Raja, José Sherwood Gonzalez, Laura Moran, Olivia Casagrande & Marco Di Nunzio
Meet the author: Morgan Reid
An interview with Otherwisemag creative non-fiction and memoir editor Laura Moran
"This story explains the sacrifices a person must make in life to progress. Hardship is a part of the journey toward reaching stability"
Movement saves the main characters in my story. They had to move to find peace, safety, and prosperity…
“What was dat?” Prince asked, wiping the crust of porridge off the corner of his mouth.
“A mad cat dat. It almost jump pon mi’ just now!”
“Ah, nuh worry yourself.”
Check out Clarence by Morgan Reid for
Otherwise Magazine
Morgan Reid captures the affective hardships of movement and of being stuck
OUR NEW STORY IS OUT
Clarence
In this story, captures the affective hardships of movement and of being stuck.
"We went to bed hungry, again"
https://www.otherwisemag.com/clarence
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