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James Paxton PriestleySome writing refuses to stay in the light – dark, unconventional, and uncanny; drawn from folk horror and the Gothic, the weird, the spectral, and the strangeness beyond. GossamerWight exists for that writing, and for the readers and writers who seek it.
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The Unstable Realities Anthology
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Unstable Realities is the third anthology in GossamerWight’s 2026 series – four linked anthologies forming a year-long literary arc. Read about the full arc here.
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What’s in a Name?
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What’s in a name?
Well, a good deal, in fact. We decided that GossamerWight—a neologistic hopeful – was to be one word, with the ‘W’ also capitalised.
Let’s break the word GossamerWight into two...
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If your writing lives at the edges – where the familiar turns strange and atmosphere works as hard as the plot – then GossamerWight was made with you in mind. Here, work that belongs to the shadowe...
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If you write prose and poetry that lives at the edges – where the familiar turns strange and atmosphere works as hard as the plot – then GossamerWight was made with you in mind. Here, work that belongs to...
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Creative writing graduate | Folk horror, weird, ‘New Weird’ and Gothic fiction devotee | Fuelled by dark & unconventional stories that twist the familiar into the uncanny | Founder & Editor-in-Chief at GossamerWight.com.
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