Submissions are still open! If you’re working on your submission, good luck and I hope it’s going well for you. I speak for us all when I say we are SO excited to read your work. 

If you’re planning on submitting a sci-fi short, I am particularly excited to read your stuff. I’m a big sci-fi fan, and a big short story fan. There’s something so excellent about the vastness of space and time, the mystery of strange happenings, compacted into miniature form. I often get left with the addictive emotional cocktail of wanderlust and genuine fear. 

If I could recommend two sci-fi shorts, it’d have to be Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’ (so creepy) and Julia Armfield’s ‘The Great Awake’ (so cool) which you can read for free here: https://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/the-great-awake/It won the White Review short story prize 2018, and you can also find it in her ‘Saltslow’ collection. 

If you are stuck at the moment on a project, I’d suggest giving these two a read ^. I always find zoning into a good short story gives my brain a chance to fix the issue by the time I resurface into the world again 🙂

If you’re interested in supporting the future of the magazine here’s a link for donations: https://otherversemagazine.com/support-us-2/ Every little helps! 

Cheers, 

Jess xox