elsewhere operates as a quarterly publication with a deliberately narrow aperture: six writers per issue. The annual chapbook contest extends that curatorial logic into a longer-form opportunity, inviting short prose works—flash fiction, prose poetry, nonfiction—that resist stable categorization. The journal's stated indifference to 'the line / no line' signals an editorial posture rooted in language and disruption rather than adherence to conventional genre boundaries. The contest is administered online, with no geographic restriction. A fee is required to submit, though the provided data lists the amount as zero cents; applicants should verify the current fee on the submission portal before proceeding. The prize is not specified in the available information, and no materials list is provided. What is clear is the scale: elsewhere publishes only six writers quarterly, which suggests a highly selective, editorially driven process rather than a broad-circulation competition. The curatorial vision is explicit in the description: work that is 'homeless,' 'animal,' and 'lunch money'—a call for writing that is feral, unhousebroken, and unashamed of its own hunger. This is not a venue for polished, genre-compliant narratives. It is a venue for prose that operates at the edges of form, where fiction, nonfiction, and poetry contaminate one another productively.