Frequent Questions

Yes. At this time, membership is entirely free. We may introduce monthly or annual membership plans at some point, offering additional benefits. These would require a paid subscription. However, the free membership plan will always be available.

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Future paid membership plans (if implemented) will restrict access to some content for those on a free membership plan. Here, you would need to upgrade if you wished to access that additional content.

The anthology is not a ‘separate entity’ to the GossamerWight Literary Magazine. Rather, it is integral to our operations and identity. They are twins and share a bond. However, the anthology allows us to gather the theme-specific stories and poetry submissions of talented writers and publish them under one cover, with a quarterly issue being favoured by us, contributions permitting.

No, we will make each issue of the (quarterly) anthology available as a free download from our website as a professional print-ready PDF and generic ePub.

That said, and conditions permitting, we do plan to take the best of the best stories and poetry from our (quarterly) anthologies and combine them in physical print as an annual anthology. You may then purchase the annual anthology from our website and most online and physical bookstores.