the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature
SUBMISSIONS OPEN until 31st of May 2022 – please read updated submissions guidelines below
new email address for submissions: submissions.otherside@gmail.com
We admire, respect, and are friends with writers and poets from all walks of life. However, the other side of hope exists to serve, bring together, and celebrate the refugee and immigrant communities worldwide. To help promote and showcase writing from these communities, fiction and poetry are open to refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants only. We accept non-fiction, book reviews, and author interview submissions by everyone on the theme of migration. Please see categories below.
We publish twice a year, one print issue and one online issue.
Read more: https://othersideofhope.com/submissions.html
6 January 2022: Byline Times: ‘Refugees and Migrants Do Not Come From a Different World’
Malka Al-Haddad introduces a new magazine aiming to challenge stereotypes about refugees and migrants by showcasing their writing and editing and building a ‘bridge’ of understanding
The Other Side of Hope: Journeys in Refugee and Immigrant Literature is a new literary journal edited by immigrants and refugees based in the UK. The magazine seeks to break down stereotypes about migrants and refugees by showcasing their writing and aims to support those careers that may have been cut short because of exile and migration.
It was created because there is no other similar literary magazine in the country. This type of publication should have happened years ago but because it didn’t, we made it happen. Arts Council England funded us and we are supported by Journeys Festival International.
As immigrant editors, we believe that people need to understand each other, and this magazine exists to enable people to gain insights into us – our lives, our talents and our stories. It aims to be a bridge that will bring us closer through literature, and we want it to become a home for refugee and immigrant writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and for those writers who know about us and want to support us.
Our first print and online issues have now been published.
Read more here: https://bylinetimes.com/2022/01/05/refugees-and-migrants-do-not-come-from-a-different-world
You will find the online version here: online volume, number 1, autumn 2021
ISSN 2754-2505 https://othersideofhope.com/online-magazine.html