Gossamer Literary Magazine

due to an influx of submissions, we’ve decided to temporarily close our POETRY subs for ISSUE 01: “WINGS”. don’t fret—if you’ve already submitted, we’re still enjoying your words! in the meantime, we’d love to read more prose poetry, haibuns, and any other prose form we missed.👼

aaaand ISSUE 01: “WINGS” is now live on our site—please take a moment to enjoy the words of our talented and kind contributors, who have worked very hard alongside our staff to deliver. thank you for trusting us in our ability to return wiser & humbly 🤍👼 gossamerlit.com/issue-01

@casperalixander and we are so honored to be a home for your beautiful words, casper! we so humbly appreciate you as a member of our family, and for your trust in us. 🤍

have access to them, and we thank you for trusting her ability to learn and grow. again, thank you so much for your support in us, and we hope you will enjoy our inaugural issue releasing tonight. 🤍 (3/3)

her actions in NO WAY represent the contributors or this issue, and we have taken every measure to make sure that they are not affected. we would also like to reiterate that our eic is deeply reflecting, and she is cognizant of your trust in the submissions. she will not (2/3)

dear gossamer family, we would like to thank you for your support and trust in our ability to reflect upon this situation. upon our release of ISSUE 01: “WINGS”, we will take a hiatus for the health of our staff members and the community. our eic would like to stress that (1/3)

@smnthfn hi sam, they are for ISSUE 01–but ISSUE 02 subs will be opening right after the release!! we thank you for your patience. 🤍👼

@gossamerlit are poetry subs still temporarily closed?

we’re SO close to 1,200 in our gossamer family—just in time for the end of our sub window. get your subs in by tonight for a 12-hour response 🤍👼 one of the things we love the most is receiving such kind response emails to our rejections—that they’d submit again. we love you.

@perhappened YAYYYY from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much, perhappened family—such role models 😭🤍🤍🤍

@gossamerlit so freaking proud of y'all!! congratulations~ 🥰✍️✨

from our family to yours, have a wonderful & writing-filled new year. SUBS for ISSUE 01: “WINGS” close TODAY—have you submitted yet? if you’re still waiting for a response, do keep an eye on your inbox. 🤍

@RenaSuWrites we’re in!!

calling all job seekers: our SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER position is OPEN!! we’re looking for 1-2 people who love our mission, are familiar with canva/design, & can provide outreach into the literary community. unpaid at this time. we so look forward to working with you—link in bio ☺️👼

@ladyheinous @ogmamagazine @perhappened @AmpleRemains how lovely, caroline!! thank you so much—our eic was just mildly stressing out abt the over simple layout of the site so this is such a godsend to hear ☺️🤍much love~

@perennial_press we love you too, madi & team!!! 😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🤍 much love

can we just say.... we LOVE all the teens out there starting mags & journals & communities & shit 💜 y’all are the future 💞

said it before, will say it again. we have a repeat submitter who likes to harass people and publish exceedingly creepy poems about their lives. do not publish gerard sarnat. do not do it. nobody do it. don't submit to publications who do it. willful ignorance at this point.

I feel like I need to disrupt the narrative that poorer publications that can't afford to pay are "exploiting" their submitters. A thread:

@ogmamagazine @tywiorg @expostmag @GlobalYouthRev how exciting !! see you there 👼🤍

reminder that the @tywiorg writeathon is going on right now, and our co-eic will be speaking on the panel in two hours to give you lots of insider tips! our friends @expostmag @gossamerlit @GlobalYouthRev & more will be there too -- show up & then submit ✨#responses" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/forms/d/1a7k4n…

have you ordered tickets yet? we’re so excited to be holding an EXPEDITED SUBMISSION WINDOW in honor of @tywiorg’s winter workshop!! young writers of all backgrounds are welcome to submit PROSE, PROSE POETRY, and/or ART to ISSUE 01: “WINGS”. we’re so excited to read your works👼

@JellyfishReview we personally like to recommend other magazines that we feel would be a wonderful home for this piece, as well as point out what our readers made note of—we’ve gotten a lot of positive response to that!! ☺️👼

@ogmamagazine yes please!!~

fellow little lit mags: would you guys be interested in joining a discord server? it'd be a tightly knit community where we could share everything from how to write a good rejection letter to events we need help promoting to collaboration ideas. if you would be, reply!

@ayaskala so much love. thinking of you🙏🏻🤍

hi friends, EIC's grandfather is no more. we may not be able to function as normal for January as well. keep her in your thoughts and prayers. we'll keep you updated on when we're back into functioning. thank you so much.🙏