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Big Other [1]

Basic Information
State: 
New York
Website: 
https://bigother.com [2]
Country: 
United States
Submission Guidelines: 
https://bigother.com/submit [3]
City: 
Brooklyn
Zip / Postal Code: 
11223
Contact Information
John
Madera
Editor
Contact E-mail: 
johnmadera@gmail.com [4]
Details
Formats: 
Online
Digital
Audio
Video
Payment: 
No payment
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Response Time: 
Less than 3 months

Big Other welcomes submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, lyric essay, art, video, short drama, and hybrid work from both established and emerging writers and artists. They are especially interested in experimental and innovative art, literary and otherwise. They also accept reviews, interviews, book excerpts, and craft essays.

Big Other seeks to publish diverse voices, including works by women, people of color, and people who are queer, transgender, disabled, indigenous, international, and/or others underrepresented in literary magazines.

Read interviews with Big Other’s publishing editor John Madera about his tenure editing and publishing the journal in Heavy Feather Review, Maudlin House, and Volume 1 Brooklyn by visiting our About page.

Representative Authors: 
Big Other has published work by Pulitzer Prize winners Rae Armantrout and Forrest Gander, National Book Award winners Daniel Borzutzky and Arthur Sze, Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy Samuel R. Delany, American Book Award winner Edwin Torres, and a host of other stellar writers.
Year Founded: 
2009
Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published: 
26% to 50%
5,000 to 10,000
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir [5]
Cross-genre [6]
Experimental [7]
Feminist [8]
Fiction [9]
Flash Fiction [10]
Graphic/Illustrated [11]
Literary Fiction [12]
Narrative Nonfiction [13]
Nonfiction [14]
Poetry [15]
Prose Poetry [16]
Speculative Fiction [17]
Translation [18]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/big_other

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/big_other [2] https://bigother.com [3] https://bigother.com/submit [4] mailto:johnmadera@gmail.com [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/autobiographymemoir [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/experimental [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/feminist [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/fiction [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction [11] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/graphic-illustrated [12] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [13] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/narrative_nonfiction [14] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/nonfiction [15] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/poetry [16] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry [17] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/speculative-fiction [18] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/translation