Letters from the editor, resources, and other transmissions.
Our final challenge of the year, “A House Divided,” asked for writing that explored home, displacement, and what the shape of shelter looks like today. We’re excited to announce our finalists, whose works reveal the pain of fractured family histories, the nature of erasure, and detachment from danger until it arrives on one’s doorstep. Please […]
We’re pleased to announce the shortlist from our final challenge of the year. This list recognizes the poems, stories, and essays that stopped us and made us reflect on shelter, resistance, resilience, and hope. Join us in celebrating these writers, and stay tuned for the finalists next week! “The Statue in the Chapel” by Sunny […]
First-place winner Rhys L’Hermite talks about crafting his winning poem, toxic masculinity, and why writing is an act of defiance.
For our very first challenge, “Monsters We Made,” we asked writers to send us work that responds to what we doomscroll through. These pieces made us pause and consider the forces shaping us, reexamine how we engage with technology and culture, and reflect on how we are both victims of the monsters within our global […]
Our inaugural challenge brought in so many impactful and resonant pieces, and it was difficult to narrow down the finalists—which is a good problem to have. We want to recognize the following writers for their work, which lingered long after reading and made us reflect on the monsters we have made on an individual, societal, […]
Our first writing challenge is in the books, and I’m sitting at my desk feeling grateful, inspired, and excited. We asked for work along the theme of “Monsters We Made”—that is, the monsters of our own making and how they haunt us today. It was a pleasure to see how writers explored these themes across […]
Glossy Planet uses Duosuma (via Duotrope) to read submissions.
At Glossy Planet, we want to publish work that makes us stop and feel something—but what does that actually mean, and what different forms can that take? Here is a collection of work across genres that interact with narrative, form, and genre in ways that lingered with us after reading. “Obit” by Victoria Chang How […]
Hello. Hi there. Hola. My name is Rebecca Paredes, and I’m here to welcome you to the launch of Glossy Planet, a literary magazine that publishes words as alive and unruly as the moment we live in. Like many of you, I occasionally* (*often) spend time doomscrolling and lamenting the state of the world—the persistent […]
