Issue 2 is OUT NOW!! HAPPY PRIDE, Issue 2 is now live on our website!!!
Thatās nine stories, six poems, and one essayāall by queer authors, which means this issue might just be the perfect Pride Month read. As everā¦ this issue is for you and because of you. We couldnāt do this without your support! Thank you!
The TOC in issue order, with links to each piece:
āļø Letter from the EditorsĀ š āMasquerade.ā ā Chidera Offor (poetry, 22 lines) š āWe Who Have Been Raised by Tigersā ā P.V. Vamsidhar (fiction, 4000 words) š āBefore She Knew About Magicā ā Joshua Geller Schwartz (fiction, 700 words) š¤ āGanymedeā ā Gospel Chinedu (poetry, 41 lines) š āTwo Peopleā ā Ben Francisco (fiction, 4000 words) š¤ļø āobsolesceā ā Macey Levington (poetry, 29 lines) š§Ŗ āThis Is C(lone)-Popā ā Lia Lao (fiction, 4000 words) š·ļø āSpider Kissā ā Bree Wernicke (fiction, 3700 words) š¦ āgirl, flogged by a false-named whip.ā ā Amie Shen (poetry, 32 lines) āļø āChÄ« KĒā ā J.Y. Zhang (fiction, 1700 words) š± āFirst to Rotā ā J.N. Howell (fiction, 2100 words) š āCrownsā ā cee-cee manrique (fiction, 600 words) ā āOpen Your Eyes Againā ā Toby MacNutt (poetry, 35 lines) š¼ļø āRemade, Reshaped, Rememberedā ā Sydney Paige Guerrero (fiction, 4000 words) šŗļø āAs seen through the hole of the hag stone:ā ā Sienna Tristen (poetry, 20 lines) āļø āA Noose of Purple Silkā ā Sidney Grady (nonfiction, 3300 words)
As we write in our editorial letter, when we say āqueer stories matter,ā we donāt just mean ābecause theyāre fun to read.ā They are! But we also know that encounters with queer stories can be transformative. OTHERSIDE is for everyone, of courseābut we do what we do because we canāt stop thinking about the readers who need these stories, the readers who will remember these stories, just like we remember the stories that shaped us. Many of the pieces in the issue are linked by shared themes: unexpected connections, the search for a place to call home, the families weāre born into and the families we choose. Perhaps above all else, though, this is an issue about memory. What stories do you remember? How have they shaped you? How have they saved you?
All the ways you can read Issue 2:
The full issue is available on our website!
You can purchase the ebook version almost everywhere ebooks can be found: Weightless Books, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ko-fi, and lots of other retailers. You can also purchase the ebook right here on Patreon (and paid patrons can download current and past issues at the same link).
You can get a print copy! Unfortunately, in a stroke of unlucky-newsletter-timing, we had to make a small change to our print files and now order links are temporarily down. However, if you check these links again in a few hours or tomorrow at the latest, you should be able to order print copies directly (for readers in the US and UK) or via Bookshop.org or Barnes & Noble. Print should also be available from more retailers soon!Ā
And you can also request issues of OTHERSIDE from your local library, which helps other readers discover the magazine too!
If you enjoy this issue, the #1 best way to support us is to spread the word! Tell a friend to check out our site, share a link to your favorite piece on social media, or write a review! (Apart from social media, you can leave a review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, and probably lots of other places too.) Word of mouth means absolutely everything for a new magazine, and in a moment when lots of people would like to make it as hard as possible to find queer stories, your help makes all the difference šŖš”ļøš
