GossamerWight

Twisting the familiar into the uncanny. A literary magazine.

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A colour image announcing the open submissions window for the Gossamerwight Literary Magazine Anthology.

(Updated 22 October 2025) We are excited to announce that the window is open for submissions to the first edition of the GossamerWight Literary Magazine Anthology, 'Everyday Eerie'. ⚠️Following requests, we have extended the original submissions window closure from the end of October to 11.59 pm (GMT)

by James Priestley & Denver Shai & Toby Cotton Sep 22, 2025

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News

Metamorphosis

A colour photo of a translucent ghost bride in a white wedding gown in a decrepit library. Image credit: Willgard from Pixabay.

It will not have escaped the attention of our members that we have given this website a significant makeover... and not in appearance alone. In fact, one might say the changes represent a complete metamorphosis. Our website has broken free from its former chrysalis self and taken wing to mature

by James Priestley & Denver Shai Aug 29, 2025

Multimedia

Jack Edward's Book Recommendations

The Hay Festival site, 2023. A press and media image courtesy of Hay Festival. ©2023-2025.

The wonderful thing about having a backstage pass to the Green Room at the Hay Festival is that you are never entirely sure who you might run into. When James (James Paxton Priestley, Editor-in-Chief of GossamerWight Literary Magazine) and I whizzed off to Hay two years ago for a two-day

by Denver Shai Aug 24, 2025

Essays

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

A monochrome photo of a coffin in the rear of a hearse, with an arrangement of flowers on top. Image by Carolyn Booth from Pixabay (modified).

In this essay, I explore how adoption of the graphic novel form by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel for her 2006 autography Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic allowed her, I contend, to create a narrative with a deeper, more nuanced message than that possible in prose form alone.[1] Of

by James Priestley Aug 11, 2025

Essays

And They Lived Unhappily Ever After: The Anti-Fairy Tale

A colour print depicting Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf from the European fairy tale of that name, drawn by the English book illustrator, Arthur Rackham.

Introduction In one of the most well-known high fantasy adventure novels of all time, The Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, The Lady Galadriel says about the Ring passing out of knowledge that ‘History (of it) became legend, legend became myth.’ We give legend and myth oral

by James Priestley May 22, 2025