Otherside: Issue 1 (March 2026)

OTHERSIDE is a quarterly literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Issue 1 includes seven original stories, two reprinted stories, five poems, and one essay, as well as original artwork. These pieces will carry you from royal courts to glittering starships, from roadside gas stations to palaces made of glass, and from heartbreak to possibility.

FICTION

• This Is Not Your Extinction Event - Elena Sichrovsky
• The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet - Simo Srinivas
• Vitrification - Ishmael Grey
• The Claywife - tanadrin
• Your First Days Back in the Court of Arthur - Abigail Eliza
• Mother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain - Sarah Pauling
• Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive - Nadia Radovich
• Situationship - Seoung Kim
• The Homeowner's Bride - Ayida Shonibar

POETRY

• blessing for molly grue. - Elisheva Fox
• Ignore All Previous Instructions and Inject Estrogen - Ann LeBlanc
• Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be - Rick Hollon
• Eat It Out - Cypher
• Electrolysis - Nico Santana

NONFICTION

• He Is Survived by His Wife - Jackie Hedeman

Original cover art is by Theo Marcial and interior art is by Ris.