Editor Interview: Gemini Magazine

Creative, outside the box

Exquisite Corpse, Dogzplot, Ducts, The Sun, The New Yorker

Fiction: Franz Kafka, Chekhov, Maupassant, Martha Gellhorn, Richard Yates, Richard Ford
Poetry: Wallace Stevens, Bob Dylan, Robert Frost, Alexander Pope

We publish stuff that gets to the core of things and is hard to forget. And we try to present it in a visually appealling format. Some of the writing we publish may have been overlooked by other publications. We have no guidelines because we think it is not fair to tell a person how or what to write.

Write passionately, edit ruthlessly, proofread carefully.

Days after I read it, as I go about my daily business, I can't stop thinking about it.

They don't understand that we want original, inventive material written from the heart. It's okay to be different! Please, no attachments.

The main thing is the writing! We have published many new writers with no publication credits at all. Cover letters are welcome for regular submissions, but in our fiction contests we ask for no biographical information or publication credits, and that is very refreshing because we get to focus on the work itself.

Even if I know early on that a piece isn't right for us, I often read it right through to the end. Everyone has a story to tell, and I like to listen. However, if the first paragraph or two are riddled with typos and nonsense, there is no point in continuing.

Sometimes we ask for revisions which may push the writer a little further.

I sometimes read submissions while going though the car wash. I stay up too late reading submissions or doing other magazine-related things. I get up in the middle of the night to read submissions or talk to Yahoo tech support. Every minute is precious. There is never enough time.