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GossamerWight Literary Magazine
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A UK-based online literary magazine dedicated to dark & unconventional storytelling & poetry. Also on LinkedIn | Instagram | Flipboard | Mastodon.

Editor: James P. Priestley.

Member of the International Gothic Association.

https://www.gossamerwight.com
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SUBMISSIONS CLOSING SOON! (Sunday, 30 November). #SubmissionCall #Submissions #Anthology #Anthologies #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #GossamerWight #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Microfiction #FlashFiction #ShortStory #GraphicNarrative #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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@gossamerwight.com is on Chill Subs (@chillsubs.bsky.social) at bit.ly/4qNwBJS. ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSIONS OPEN TILL 30 NOV. #SubmissionCall #Anthology #LiteraryMagazine #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #ShortStories #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy #Eerie
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November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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#SUBMISSION BBC Writers Open Call for writers based in Wales, United Kingdom. Details on the poster below. Good luck!
A colour poster issued by the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) announcing the BBC Writers Open Call for writers based in Wales, UK, with a drama or comedy/drama script written for film, TV, radio, or stage that is over 30 pages long.
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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#CULTURE #NEWS
First Minister of Wales, Eluned Morgan: “Congratulations to #Aberystwyth for becoming Wales’ first UNESCO Creative City and City of Literature. Wales is a land of creativity, made up of great authors, poets, singers and actors." Aber is also home to @gossamerwight.com!

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October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Literary magazine submission benefits for English Literature and creative writing students: bit.ly/4qrJut4

#Submissions #Anthology #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #GossamerWight #Writer #Writing #Student #University #FlashFiction #ShortStory #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy
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October 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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#SUBMISSIONS Should you have been thinking about submitting a piece of prose or poetry to the next GossamerWight Anthology, but are unclear about the benefits to you, allow us to highlight the advantages as we see them: bit.ly/3L9Yqf7 #SubmissionCall #Anthology #Anthologies #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag
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October 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN. #SubmissionCall #Submissions #Anthology #Anthologies #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #GossamerWight #Writer #Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #ShortStory #ShortStories #Poetry #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #ghost #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy #Eerie (turn on sound)
October 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN. #SubmissionCall #Submissions #Anthology #Anthologies #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #GossamerWight #Writer #Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #ShortStory #ShortStories #Poetry #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #ghost #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy #Eerie (turn on sound)
October 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN. #SubmissionCall #Submissions #Anthology #Anthologies #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #GossamerWight #Writer #Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #ShortStory #ShortStories #Poetry #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #ghost #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy #Eerie (turn on sound)
October 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Time is slipping away... act today! #Submissions #Anthology #GossamerWight #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #Prose #Poetry #ShortStory #FlashFiction #Horror #Fantasy #Speculative #Ghosts #Dystopian (Play sound)
October 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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SUBMISSIONS OPEN (Extended to 30 November). #SubmissionCall #Submissions #Anthology #Anthologies #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #GossamerWight #Writer #Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #ShortStory #ShortStories #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy #Eerie
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October 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Look, Yule has come early! Delivered earlier this afternoon from www.lovereading.co.uk ... "Witsh" by @mariellisdunning.bsky.social

If you haven't already, we'd highly recommend visiting Mari's website: mariellisdunning.cymru and linktr.ee/maridunning.

#Witchcraft #Novel #HistoricFiction #Wales
The front colour, in colour, of "Witsh", the debut witchcraft novel by Mari Ellis Dunning.
October 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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#Essay: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. I compare Lewis’ children’s classic with Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, The Crossing of the First Threshold, and Supernatural Aid. bit.ly/4nFyFSi

#Narnia #CSLewis #Booksky
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October 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Member of the International Gothic Association.

www.globalgoth.org/about/

#GossamerWight #IGA #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #Gothic #GothicStudies #GothMap #Scholars #Students #Art #Artists #Writers #Literature #Poetry #Performers #Culture #Fiction #Drama #Film #Music #Dance #Architecture
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October 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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We're looking forward to attending the talk by Professor Debbie Felton, 'Fairy Tales: Their Ancient Origins,' on Sunday 12 October 2025, 20:00-21:30 GMT, online (Zoom). details: www.gossamerwight.com/events/

#events #fairytales #folklore #esoteric #medusa #ethnography #ancientworld
Image credit: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Abduction of Psyche (1895).
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Have you tried the flash fiction writing prompts on our website at www.gossamerwight.com/prompts/?

#GossamerWight #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #prompt #prompts #writer #writing #WritingCommunity #flashfiction #story #stories #horror #fantasy #supernatural #ghost #weird #dystopian #uncanny.
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September 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Staff member: Miggy, our marmalade mouser mascot! bit.ly/4nF73f.

#SubmissionCall #Anthology #Anthologies #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #GossamerWight #Writer #Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #ShortStory #ShortStories #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy #Eerie.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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We loved the comprehensible scientific analysis offered in this article from The Conversation. Welcome to The tick, D. plumbicare (the plant pod), Trypanohyncha ocellus, The fly, and The Xenomorph. All will be made clear!
A colour screenshot of a still from the TV series Alien:Earth. in an article from The Conversation titled, 'Alien: Earth—how realistic are the extraterrestrials? Three experts rank them.'
September 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Spotted in Waterstones: 'Witchy Stitching: 25 Patterns to Haunt Your Home.' Great cover.

Paperback.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing.
ISBN: 9781789942248

'The haunted side of stitching. Bewitch your home with gothic art inspired patterns, Halloween curiosities, haunted holidays & witchy oddities.'
The front cover (in colour) of Meg Black's paperback book, 'Witchy Stitching - 25 Patterns to Haunt Your Home,' from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This from Mari Ellis Dunning.

"Witchcraft in Wales didn’t conform to the concept of a devil-worshipping anti-religion seen elsewhere. Instead, it was grounded in an intrinsic belief in charming, cursing, soothsaying and magic, and the ability of these things to harm and to heal." bit.ly/3JVuQJJ
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September 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Announced this week by the British Film Institute (BFI): 'The bold new musical horror-romance, "Stuffed," will begin shooting in Wales this month. Starring Harry Melling and Jodie Comer.

Details: deadline.com/2025/09/jodi...
Colour photos of the actors Harry Melling and Jodie Comer, who will both be starring in the bold new musical horror, "Stuffed," filming for which starts this month (September) in Wales.
September 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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"Why Hollywood’s first iconic Phantom of the Opera film is still puzzling us, 100 years on."

An excellent article by Kit MacFarlane (Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature, University of South Australia) in The Conversation.

➤ theconversation.com/why-hollywoo...
A publicity still of Lon Chaney in his role as The Phantom of the Opera in the original 1925 silent film, produced by Universal. Chaney was also widely known for playing Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). Photo credit: Universal Pictures.
September 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Like us, you no doubt love to rise to the challenge of being given a writing prompt–especially one that allows you to break through your writing comfort zone into previously uncharted lands. You can now find writing prompts for flash fiction stories on our website at www.gossamerwight.com/prompts/
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September 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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September 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Metamorphosis

Our website has broken free from its former chrysalis self and taken wing to mature into an online literary magazine – the GossamerWight Literary Magazine.

Read our article in full at www.gossamerwight.com/metamorphosis/

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August 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM