What is a revolutionary thing? Revolution often connotes the radical overthrow of an existing paradigm, usually a political regime. While some revolutionaries fight with weapons, others fight with ideas, or hexes, or stories. For many of us, our revolutionary acts … Continue reading
It turns out that dragging yourself out of the grave takes time, and we’re so grateful you stuck with us as The Golden Key has worked over the past several months to slowly, surely bring ourselves back to life. It … Continue reading
Priscilla Boatwright provided art for The Golden Key’s fifth and most levitative issue: Things that Float. She’s a San Antonio-based illustrator and writer, and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. What role did color play in your … Continue reading
Good morning! Thank you to all the contributors who’ve already sent us work for Issue 6: Hidden Things consideration. For this issue, we’re continuing to accept stories and poems, per our submission guidelines, through the end of May. This issue … Continue reading
For Issue 4: Hungry Things, we asked our contributors to answer one of two questions: What is your strangest craving, or, what are you always hungry for? We love their answers. Reading them, we started to crave all manner of … Continue reading
Read past issues Past issues are all available in our Archives, and reading them is probably the best way to get to know The Golden Key. Read our editor interviews In the interviews, we answer questions about what we look … Continue reading
We answered six questions about our editorial preferences on the Six Questions For… blog, where editors are interviewed about what they’re looking for. We list the top 3 things we look for in a submission, why a submission is rejected, … Continue reading
This week we sat down for a chat with Libby Burns, our resident artist. We’ve been lucky to have her illustrate the pieces in Issue 1 and Issue 2 of The Golden Key, as well as design the key and … Continue reading
In addition to our for-fun “submission kinks,” we answered a few questions to accompany our Duotrope listing. For further insight into editor preferences, check out the interview here. We’re very much excited by the response we’ve received so far to … Continue reading
Last week, our friends at Goblin Fruit posted to Facebook what they referred to as their poemic “kinks,” “things which, when appearing in a piece, make us more likely to fall for it. Jess favours masks, foxes, feathers, swans; Caitlyn … Continue reading