Elsewhere is an English-language quarterly print journal dedicated to involved and intelligent writing about place, whether from travel writers or local ramblers, deep topographers or psychogeographers, overland wanderers or edgeland explorers.

Within the pages of Elsewhere we will publish drifting excursions through city suburbs and journeys on foot along the ancient old ways; written sketches of airports and market squares, forests and riverbanks; the legends that linger on mountainsides and the folklore of the flatlands; the everyday realities of island communities and the streetlife of city neighbourhoods.

Elsewhere will also feature interviews with those for whom place is central to their work, whether photographers, artists or filmmakers, craftspeople, historians or musicians. And we also have space for those places that exist only in our heads – whether lost but remembered, or imagined and invented.

A successful crowdfunding campaign will allow us to launch the journal and provide the basis for a sustainable project in the future.

We have created a digital-only, shortened “Issue Zero” to give you an idea of what we are all about:

Elsewhere No. 01

The first print edition of Elsewhere: A Journal of Place is due to be published in June 2015. The journal will be 84 pages on matte paper, and will include illustrations and photography. All of the content will appear for the first time in No. 01, and has not been included in the zero edition. Here are some of the details:

Places…

Loch Fyne, Scotland
Nova Huta, Poland
Oder River, Germany
Prespa, Greece
Romney Marshes, England

Plus…

An interview with Stephen Cracknell (The Memory Band)
The illustrations of Chandler O’Leary

Contributors...

Kavita Bedford, Gary Budden, Nicky Gardner, Julian Hoffman, Marcel Krueger,
Eve Richens, Paul Scraton, Julia Stone, Paul Sullivan

What is the money for?

In a nutshell, because we want Elsewhere to appear in print, and we want to pay our contributors. These are the two largest expenses when it comes to launching the journal, and together account for around €4,000 per edition. On top of that we need to pay web hosting fees, postage, software licences, as well as the fees due to Indiegogo should we reach our goal. To ensure the publication of issue one, we have set the target at €5,000.

Should we raise more than this, the extra money will go towards realising the second issue of Elsewhere, to be published in September. So every cent raised by this campaign will help us guarantee not only the launch but the future of the journal… it all helps!

What do you get for your money?

Everyone who supports the project will receive a copy of Elsewhere No. 01, sent out in June 2015. Alongside this we have some other goodies for larger amounts, including Elsewhere notebooks for all sketchers and writers out there, and limited edition screen prints of our exclusive illustrations inspired by the articles in the journal.

What does “patron” mean?

Patrons of Elsewhere will receive three copies of the journal, either all sent to one address or sent out to separate addresses, with a personalised thank you letter included in each. They will also get their name printed in the inside cover of the journal and, as with everyone who supports us in whichever way they can, our eternal thanks.

Who are we?

The co-founders of Elsewhere: A Journal of Place are Paul Scraton (Editor in Chief) and Julia Stone (Creative Director). Based in Berlin, Germany, Paul and Julia have worked together on a number of creative projects, including books and magazines.

Paul: Originally from Lancashire, England, he has been living in Berlin since 2001. He runs the Under a Grey Sky website devoted to “adventures beyond the front door” and has written for The Guardian, Hidden Europe, Slow Travel Berlin and Caught by the River.