Happy Spring!

 

Eleven days to submit your stories!

 

The deadline for the 15th annual Gemini Magazine Short Story Prize is April 1. The winner will receive $1,000 and online publication in our June/July issue. Four additional finalists will receive cash prizes and online publication. The entry fee is $8 and we are open to ANY topic or writing style.

 

Read our 2023 winner: "Conflagration" by Teresa Burns Gunther.

 

SIX PRINCIPLES THAT MAKE FOR A GOOD STORY

 

6. Compassion

 

5. Audacity and originality: flee the stereotype

 

4. Extreme brevity

 

3. Truthful descriptions of persons and objects

 

2. Total objectivity

 

1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature

 

     ― Anton Chekhov

 

The winners of our 14th annual Poetry Open will be announced in April. 

 

We are open year round for general submissions. Send general submissions of written work, visual art or videos on any topic here. No rules, NO FEE.

 

Best wishes,

 

David Bright, Editor