Help Wanted
Writers Wanted
WRITERS — of short fiction, made with AI, set in a marketplace of some kind. Weekly zine seeks more voices for its pages. No experience required; strong sense of place, an ear, and a story that ends preferred. Must enjoy Mondays. Pay: none. Glory: modest. Company: excellent. Apply by letter, with samples, to applications@gdmockingbird.com.
The longer version
There are three of us and we’d like there to be more. Not because three isn’t enough for an issue — it is; that’s the whole design — but because the more the merrier, and because we’d like to find out what a Mockingbird story sounds like in a voice that isn’t ours.
If you like the vibe — read an issue first; if it doesn’t make you want to write one, that’s an answer too — write to us at applications@gdmockingbird.com. Tell us why you think you’d fit in, and send a story or two you’ve written with AI so we can see. Two thousand words is about the size of the thing; a marketplace somewhere in it is the constant. Tell us how you make your stories, if you like — the process is half of what interests us.
What we can promise: we’ll read it, and we’ll write back. What we can’t: that we’ll add you. We don’t know yet how big this should be, or how it should grow, and we’d rather say so than pretend. If it’s a fit, we’ll say that; if it’s a fit later, we’ll say that; if it’s not, we’ll say that too, kindly.
The terms, such as they are: no pay, same as us. Whatever you write stays yours; publishing here means putting it out under the same ♥ copyheart + CC BY 4.0 the rest of the zine uses, so anyone can copy and share it with your name on it. You show up on Mondays if you can. That’s it.