Before there was AI, we created an online literary journal at GreenMountainWriters.com.
Our intention was to share the work which developed in the Green Mountain Writers Group workshops. The model was intended to place control over publication into the hands of the the submitting authors. As a registered member, you could decide when you were ready to share your work. There was be no top-down submission-and-approval process.
The intention was to make all of the work readily available online for everyone to enjoy without restriction. Then AI began to stalk and consume any and every open source of writing it could find to ingest. With that in mind, we decided to protect the work by placing it behind a paywall. A contribution of any amount would qualify you as a subscriber. You would be granted a personal account and gain access to all of the published works in the Green Mountain Writers Literary Review.
Then Substack came along…
They do it so much better, so we decided to simply remove the paywall and create this as a traditional online magazine, We are continuing to build the site and post fresh content as time permits. Stick around and watch us grow…