Glossy Planet Magazine: Monsters We Made
Deadline: October 15, 2025, 11:59pm PDT
The scariest monsters aren't hiding under the bed. They're the ones we made ourselves. Write about the monsters of our own making and how they haunt us today, whether that's AI and tech, structural violence, climate collapse, or something just as insidious.
We are not looking for ghost stories or urban legends. Instead, send us writing that responds to what you doomscroll through. We're seeking recipes for social justice, prose that explores the perils of smartphone addiction, poems about inflammatory rhetoric and the platforms they build, survival tips for the singularity, and more. Show us what "monsters of our own making" means to you.
We welcome all forms: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, or something even genre goblins can't categorize. Please submit up to 1,000 words of prose and up to two pages of poetry. Unpublished work only, please. If it's urgent, sharp, and dripping with weird, we want to read it.
Send us your words that are as alive and unruly as the moment. Three winners will be selected and published at the end of November. Prizes: $1,000, $200, and $100. Entry fee: $10.
About Glossy Planet
From the folks who publish The Masters Review, Glossy Planet is a new lit mag that responds to the world in real time. Every month, we drop a new challenge tied to what's happening in the headlines, the culture, and the moment. Think: the literary version of a group chat, if your group chat included a bunch of writers trying to make sense of it all.
