BIG OTHER (www.bigother.com) is an online arts and culture magazine, featuring reviews, essays, fiction, poetry, hybrid works, art, a podcast, and more. Founded in 2009. Published by @johnmadera.bsky.social.
Announced today: the deadline and guidelines for the 2026 BiG OTHER Book Awards! This marks the eighth annual presentation of the awards, which aim to recognize excellence in literature and promote innovative writers and adventurous presses. bigother.com/2026/07/27/a...
Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards!We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards! This marks the eighth annual presentation of the awards, which aim to recognize excellence in liter…bigother.comHappy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Deema K. Shehabi! Celebrate by reading these Shehabi poems we published in 2022! bigother.com/2026/07/26/f...
From the Archives: Two Poems, by Deema K. ShehabiHappy birthday, Big Other contributor Deema K. Shehabi! Celebrate by reading these Shehabi poems we published in 2022! Pantoum (for Fuad) Summer at the solstice unburies its bloodlust before…bigother.comIn the meantime, read "Einspänner," which we published in 2025, and is featured in MARIMO, MON AMOUR (FC2), Lee's forthcoming novel! bigother.com/2025/06/26/e... Cc: @fictioncollective2.bsky.social
Einspänner, by Karen An-hwei LeeEinspänner. A word with dual meanings—it’s a one-horse carriage or else it’s a hot espresso dolloped with cold whipped cream. This word conjures up the image of a coffee shop after yesteryea…bigother.comHappy birthday, Elias Canetti! bigother.com/2026/07/25/e...
Elias Canetti on Astonishment, Reality, Writing, Books, and MoreHappy birthday, Elias Canetti! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past, it is too rich, you’re…bigother.comBuy OUT OF THE BLANK, which features nine poems originally published in BIG OTHER: bookshop.org/a/578/978156... Cc: @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
Out of the Blank"We waited for Word to arrive/ like a messiah in a stagecoach/ or a sheriff riding a thundercloud." From acclaimed poet Elaine Equi comes her latest provocatively playful collection. "Thoughtful, witt...bookshop.orgHappy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Elaine Equi! Celebrate by reading the five Equi poems we published in 2025! And then go read the Equi poems we published in 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024! bigother.com/2026/07/24/f...
From the Archives: Five Poems, by Elaine EquiHappy birthday, Big Other contributor Elaine Equi! Celebrate by reading the five Equi poems below, which we published in 2025! And then go read the Equi poems we published in 2019 (and go wa…bigother.comHappy birthday, Jacques Derrida! bigother.com/2026/07/15/j...
Jacques Derrida on Writing, Language, the Impossible, and MoreHappy birthday, Jacques Derrida! Here are some quotes from the philosopher: “I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.” “No difference without alterity, no alterity without sin…bigother.comHappy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Jeffery Renard Allen! Celebrate by reading Allen’s “Four Poems,” which we published in 2025! bigother.com/2026/07/05/f...
From the Archives: Four Poems, by Jeffery Renard AllenHappy birthday, Big Other contributor Jeffery Renard Allen! Celebrate by reading Allen’s “Four Poems,” which we published in 2025! Then go read “Reading the Blind and Blacking the Beyon…bigother.comRead Joanna Ruocco’s “iDeath” in BIG OTHER: bigother.com/2025/10/02/e...
Eight Microfictions, by Joanna RuoccoiDeath My father was driven to Drink and Despair in a donkey cart. Other men had died there, and the driver pointed them out, jumbles of bones for the most part, but one man had eaten a beehive, an…bigother.com
