Gemini Magazine

Fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction & more. Three annual contests with $1,000 prize. Established 2009.

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The Gemini Magazine Flash Fiction Contest is open! We’re looking for your best stories under 1,000 words. Any subject, any style. Just make it count.

🏆 $1,000 Grand Prize 🥈 $100 Second Place 🌍 Open worldwide!

Enter here: https://t.co/OCCaZENfGx

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Correction: Chen Okafor’s “Two Sides to Rio” will be published in Potomac Review in September.

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Big congratulations to our readers Chen Okafor and Zoe Hatton on their recent publishing achievements!

Chen’s short story, “Two Sides of Rio,” in Potomac Review:
https://t.co/yEQSmKwA6k

Zoe's in Kinsman Quarterly:
https://t.co/jtcObwYslA

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Love beyond sex . . .

Read “Androgynous” by Cindy Rosmus in The Yard.

Warning: graphic content, not for under age 18

https://t.co/cNzes3gdPQ

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“The City Devours Its Young (Minneapolis),” a poem by Arvind Venkat published in Gemini, has won a PUSHCART PRIZE. The poem will appear in the 2027 Pushcart anthology this November. Congratulations to Arvind!
https://t.co/eBy0nORu5R

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A woman rushes to escape Tehran with her young daughter during the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Can they make it out in time? Read “Broken Glass” by Katy Motiey, Honorable Mention in our 2012 Short Story Contest.
https://t.co/8rBKnDXZc3

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Read “Switzerland” by Kimberly Clair, winner of our 17th annual Flash Fiction Contest. This captivating flash takes place not in a Swiss resort but in an LA psych ward.

“I’d arrived like a captured mongoose, writhing and hysterical . . .”
https://t.co/edHEnPJiU1

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Gemini Magazine 17th annual Short Story Contest.

Win $1,000! Any subject or length.

All entries read blind, so EVERYONE gets an equal chance.

Deadline: March 31

https://t.co/iKLJfYWqKT

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The year is 2135. A 99-year-old man brings his great nephew on one last fishing trip to Miami, which unfortunately is underwater.

Read “Miami in the Depths,” Short Story Contest runnerup by Robert Temple.
https://t.co/pLEroDvF76

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Congrats to Celeste Amidon for the $1,000 first prize in our Short Story Contest for “The Absinthe Drinker”!

Brilliant satire about an entitled NY brat who wakes with a hangover after her 27th birthday party and has never even taken the subway!
https://t.co/mNJDbPSWCg

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New Story of the Week!

“Keitaro’s Farewell” by Marcelo Medone

Life, love, joy & tragedy all in just 522 words!
https://t.co/aO1MPowrBz

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Introducing our first Story of the Week: “No Bad Outcomes” by Harriet Squier!

A medical student recalls some wild times on her surgical rotation.

https://t.co/xaM7ZmAkUQ

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Volunteer readers wanted at Gemini Magazine for fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction!

Time commitment: 4 to 6 hours per week.

Degree not required, just an appreciation for compelling literature.
https://t.co/ow6NnnZ1mq

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Congrats to Joe Kelly for Honorable Mention in the Poetry Open for “The Wind Is a Wolf Tonight.”

His first published poem!
https://t.co/tDtf51skqw

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Congrats to Harper Darnell, second place in our 15th annual Poetry Open for “PF Flyers”! Gritty and real.

https://t.co/oPE6fVTqqC

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Honorable Mention in 15th annual Poetry Open: “Auntie’s Freedom Dance circa 1960” by Jeanine DeHoney. Get up and dance!

https://t.co/J0CRXUOJ3J

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Honorable Mention in 15th annual Poetry Open: “The City Devours Its Young (Minneapolis)“ by Arvind Venkat. Intense!

https://t.co/eBy0nOS1Vp

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Winner of 15th annual Poetry Open and the $1,000 prize!
“Motorcyclist” by Matthew Edlund
https://t.co/dV1N49FLOn

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The winner of this year’s Poetry Open is “Motorcyclist” by Matthew Edlund!

Publication soon.

Thanks to everyone who entered!

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“Action Jackson”: The best of Alan Jackson in Karen Read Trial 2.0
https://t.co/zjPTQYarl0