When was Gargoyle started?
Who publishes Gargoyle?
How can I contact Gargoyle?
How and when can I submit material to be considered for publication in Gargoyle?
What are your guidelines?
What types of work do you publish?
How much does Gargoyle pay authors?
How much does Gargoyle cost?
Where can I buy Gargoyle?
Who are your favorite writers?
Why do you do Gargoyle?
When was Gargoyle started?
We started publication in 1976. For more information, check out our rich history.
Who publishes Gargoyle?
Gargoyle is published annually in the USA by Paycock Press.
How can I contact Gargoyle?
Contact us at:
Richard Peabody
Gargoyle
3819 13th St N
Arlington, VA 22201
Phone: 703-380-4893
E-mail: rchrdpeabody9@gmail.com
How and when can I submit material to be considered for publication in Gargoyle?
Our next reading period, for Gargoyle Online #9, will begin in October 2024 at a date to be determined We will accept/reject until full. We quit Submittable so just email your work with a short bio to rchrdpeabody9@gmail.com.
What are your guidelines?
Gargoyle has never had guidelines during its entire history. We don’t believe in them. If you don’t find your answer here on the FAQ page, feel free to e-mail us any questions you might have.
What types of work do you publish?
While we published a novella and a number of 40- and 50-page stories in the print magazine, that’s not really an option for shrinking attention spans. Being online allows us to expand into color artwork, audio clips, and video work. That’s a huge plus. And we’d like to see more of that along with Flash Fiction and Flash Nonfiction. My preferred length range is a paragraph to 10pp. There are always exceptions of course. We want the best work we can obtain. Work we can live with. Work we can read 20 times and still get a kick out of. We’ve never had a theme issue and doubt we ever will. Obviously, we want the best poem or story you will ever write. We’re not fans of the same-old/same-old and tend to publish works that are bent or edgy.
How much does Gargoyle pay authors?
Nada. We moved online in 2022. All Rights Revert to Contributors on posting though Gargoyle reserves Electronic Archival Rights and the right to reprint material in a “best of” print anthology. Gargoyle appears in the Humanities International Complete and the Index of American Periodical Verse and is also available from University Microfilms.
Who are your favorite writers?
We both like Paul Bowles and Jeanette Winterson. There are many others.
Why do you do Gargoyle?
We like discovering new poets and writers and rediscovering forgotten poets and writers. Plus, we both get a lot of pleasure out of creating an object. We both love books — the ink on the pages, the shape and feel of them. The two of us have worked in bookshops, or actually owned and operated them ourselves, for a combined total of 30+ years. We both collect books and lit mags, love to read and write, and actually believe that literature is one of the most important endeavours any human can undertake. Silly us.