OTHERSIDE is a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by queer writers and artists. Issue 1 arrives in March 2026! 🪐🗡️🌈
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ALT 20 LGBTQ+ lit mags we love that are open now Stone of Madness Press ✦ Lit mag & virtual home for queer, trans, & neurodiverse experiences Bloodletter Mag ✦ Feminist horror magazine of women, trans, and non-binary writers Spec Colorways In Verse ✦ Newsletter and community space centering queer BIPOC speculative poetry AC|DC Journal ✦ One-man operation based in NY featuring diverse queer voices The Gay & Lesbian Review ✦ Magazine of history, culture, and politics for LGBT people and their allies Plenitude ✦ Canadian magazine promoting diverse, sophisticated LGBTQ2S+ literature Screen Door Review ✦ Online lit mag from Alabama publishing work by the southern queer community t'ART Magazine ✦ Queer and trans-led collective making space for underrepresented voices Coin-Operated Press Zines ✦ Queer-led social enterprise zine press from Scotland bringing people together beestung ✦ Micro-mag for the non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit community CHILL SUBS (pg 1)
ALT 20 LGBTQ+ lit mags we love that are open now M E N A C E ✦ Lit mag publishing the dark, transgressive, gross – the “literary weird” Lavender Review ✦ International e-zine dedicated to poetry and art by, about, and for lesbians Rough Cut Press ✦ Monthly themed issues with works from within the LGBTQIA community Sinister Wisdom ✦ Multicultural lesbian literary & art journal founded in 1976 OTHERSIDE ✦ Queer-led literary magazine publishing speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art Afternoon Visitor ✦ Online biannual looking for accidental visitors, harbingers, and spectres Bi Women Quarterly ✦ Grassroots publication from the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network since 1983 SCAB Magazine ✦ A literary and art zine for outsiders – those who don’t fit in Fruitslice ✦ Curating cultural documents in real time from across the Queer diaspora fifth wheel press ✦ Community-focused publisher of work by queer, trans, and gender variant creators CHILL SUBS (pg 2/2)
ALT White text on a blurry orange and purple background. Text reads: Issue 2, June 2026 Original Fiction Crowns - cee-cee manrique First to Rot - J.N. Howell Chī Kǔ - J.Y. Zhang Before She Knew About Magic - Joshua Geller Schwartz This Is C(lone)-Pop - Lia Lao We Who Have Been Raised by Tigers - P.V. Vamsidhar Remade, Reshaped, Remembered - Sydney Paige Guerrero Nonfiction A Noose of Purple Silk - Sidney Grady
ALT White text on a blurry orange and purple background. Text reads: Issue 2, June 2026 Original Poetry girl flogged by a false-named whip - Amie Shen Masquerade. - Chidera Offor Ganymede - Gospel Chinedu obsolesce - Macey Levington As seen through the hole of the hag stone: - Sienna Tristen Open Your Eyes Again - Toby MacNutt Reprint Fiction Two People - Ben Francisco Spider Kiss - Bree Wernicke
ALT Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original art by queer creators - available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com
![20 Lit mags founded in 2025 that we think will be the next big thing
• (s)crawl magazine - Horror-focused lit mag amplifying marginalized voices
• Strange Pilgrims - Real, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing
• Gather - A writing table for gutsy, bold poets
• Tough Poets Review - Funny, smart, unpredictable, & startlingly honest
• Strange Hymnal - Literary magazine of mystery, ritual, & obsession
• Sonder Literary - Queer and youth-run zine focusing on equality and whimsy
• 149 Review - Fresh, original, thought provoking work
• Rawhead - Exploring the many forms resistance takes
• FLARE Magazine - Spotlighting chronic illnesses, mental health, & disabilities
• Blood+Honey - Experimental and avant-garde work that challenges & provokes
• Tractor Beam - Radical visions of hopeful futures on Earth
• OTHERSIDE - Quarterly magazine of speculative work by queer creatives
• MENACE - Work that encapsulates the dark, the transgressive, the gross
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ALT 20 Lit mags founded in 2025 that we think will be the next big thing • (s)crawl magazine - Horror-focused lit mag amplifying marginalized voices • Strange Pilgrims - Real, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing • Gather - A writing table for gutsy, bold poets • Tough Poets Review - Funny, smart, unpredictable, & startlingly honest • Strange Hymnal - Literary magazine of mystery, ritual, & obsession • Sonder Literary - Queer and youth-run zine focusing on equality and whimsy • 149 Review - Fresh, original, thought provoking work • Rawhead - Exploring the many forms resistance takes • FLARE Magazine - Spotlighting chronic illnesses, mental health, & disabilities • Blood+Honey - Experimental and avant-garde work that challenges & provokes • Tractor Beam - Radical visions of hopeful futures on Earth • OTHERSIDE - Quarterly magazine of speculative work by queer creatives • MENACE - Work that encapsulates the dark, the transgressive, the gross [alt text cont. in thread]
ALT Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Nonfiction: We are looking for personal essays, literary/media criticism, creative nonfiction, and more by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only considering full pieces (up to 4,000 words) and cannot consider pitches. Open November 24, 2025. Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."
ALT Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Reprints: We are looking for previously published speculative short fiction (up to 17,500 words by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free. Open November 24, 2025. Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."
ALT Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Nonfiction: We are looking for personal essays, literary/media criticism, creative nonfiction, and more by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only considering full pieces (up to 4,000 words) and cannot consider pitches. Open November 24, 2025. Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."
ALT Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Reprints: We are looking for previously published speculative short fiction (up to 17,500 words by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free. Open November 24, 2025. Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."
ALT Screenshot of Ash Vale in Discord on 1/8/25 at 2:37pm saying "Hybris Press sounds weird to me" followed by, two minutes later, "I don't mind Hybris Press!"
ALT A super blurry image. You can just see the outlines of two poorly drawn t-shirts.
ALT A blurry pink and purple background. The top reads "meet our team!" Six photos are arranged in a grid: V.M. Ayala, M.R. Robinson, Ash Vale, Angel Leal, Rukman Ragas, and Emily Yu.
ALT An extremely fancy authorial headshot of Rukman looking to one side, set atop a blurry pink and purple background. The top text reads "Rukman Ragas: Fiction Editor." Additional text reads: "LOVES: Books, sad gay witches, cooking with questionable recipes. PUBLISHED IN: Apex, Small Wonders, khoreo, Inner Worlds, and more! WANTS TO READ: The beautiful yet grotesque, the whimsical yet bloody, the unserious yet sentimental."
ALT A blurry purple and pink background. On one side, there’s a photo of Emily Yu holding a cat and smiling at the camera. On the other side (ayyy), white text reads: Emily Yu, Fiction Editor LOVES: The hobbies of an 18th-century housewife, animals, pole dancing. PUBLISHED IN: Hearth Stories, This, Luna Station Quarterly, and more! WANTS TO READ: Queer romance, good bad guys, and liminal spaces.