COVER ART

GJ Gillespie art chosen for cover of literary and art magazines 22 times.

Here are some of the covers. 

ROCK SALT JOURNAL
"Into the Mystic" chosen as COVER ART in the Fall 2024 issue. 

Into the Mystic by GJ Gillespie. 

This is my 20th cover. 
 

October 4, 2024
Dear GJ Gillespie,

Thank you for submitting to Rock Salt Journal. We would like to publish your piece "Into the Mystic" in our upcoming Fall 2024 issue.

While we prepare for publication, could you please provide a brief third-person bio for our contributor's section? Thanks so much.

Best,

Jonah Bradenday, Editor
Rock Salt Journal

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MEAT FOR TEA JOURNAL COVER ART

Ozymandias #9 by GJ Gillespie.

To publish my art including "Wild Woods Call" an in place collaged photo (meaning the image is made in real life) and "Ozymandias #9" for the cover in September. This will be my 19th cover! 

August 12, 2023

Dear GJ Gillespie,
Thank you for sending us "Ozymandias #9" and "Wild Woods Call."

We love them and want to publish "Ozymandias #9" on the front cover of the "Looseleaf" issue and "Wild Woods Call" in the guts of the same issue, due for release September 7th. 
Best,
Elizabeth and Mark
Meat for Tea Literary Journal

WILLOWS WEPT REVIEW

Editors have chosen my collage "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" for the Cover of this print literary journal! 

Shine On You Crazy Diamond by GJ Gillespie

This is my 12th magazine cover.

4 other journals later wanted it but Willows got it first. 

November 24, 2023

Dear GJ,

Thanks so much for sharing your work with us. I’d love to include “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” as the cover art for our upcoming winter issue. Our plan is to release this issue on or around December 16, so I’ll be in touch with digital proofs for you to review in the first days of December.

Best,

Troy, Editor

Willows Wept Review

RED NOISE COLLECTIVE COVER ART!
Quartet #3 will appear on the cover of the next print edition of this literary and art  magazine! 

This will be my 10th cover. See cover here. 

 Editors will also publish my collage "Ode to Billy Joe" online on march 15. 

 

Quartet #3 by GJ Gillespie. 

March 12, 2023
Hi GJ!

We're thrilled that you submitted more work to Red Noise Collective and would love to publish "Ode to Billy Joe" on Wednesday, March 15th. Please let us know if you would like to be featured in the promotional post again.

After some discussion, we would also like to consider using "Quartet #3" as the cover art for our upcoming print journal.

Your style is so aligned with the core mission of Red Noise that we feel it would be a great fit. We would also like to offer a $100 honorarium for the use of the image and credit on the title page of the journal.

Thanks again for sharing your work with us, and please feel free to reach out with questions or concerns.

Best,

Olivia Pridemore
Editor-in-Chief
Red Noise Collective
See cover art COVER ART 

California Dreaming by GJ Gillespie.

DeLudge Journal  
Fall/ Winter 2021
This is my seventh cover! 

Dear GJ: We are excited to accept the following images for publication in our next issue of DeLuge Journal:

- California Dreaming

- Dream in Your Pocket Also we are using California Dreaming as the cover!

Sincerely,

Sue Scavo

deLuge Literary and Arts Journal

See art here

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Peggy Sue by GJ Gillespie.

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In Parentheses, an online and print literary magazine, chose my collage "Peggy Sue" for the cover of Volume 7, Issue 2, Fall 2021. 

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FAUXMOIR LITERARY MAGAZINE: COVER ART
To publish two GJ Gillespie Collages and selected one for the cover! 

Lay Lady Lay #1 by GJ Gillespie

August 1, 2023

Dear GJ,

Thank you so much for submitting your work. We truly enjoyed the collection and would love to use "Lay Lady #1" and "Lay Lady #2 in Issue 10! 

Please send a brief 1st person artist's statement pertaining to each particular piece.

Best, and congratulations!

Fauxmoir Editors

Read artisti statement.

MAKING WAVES: WEST MICHIGAN REVIEW

To publish two of my collages in the online and print editions. 

Man Who Sold the World #3 by GJ Gillespie

"Man Who Sold the World" chosen for cover art! 

May 8, 20203

Dear GJ,

We would very much like to publish two of your submissions, "Desolation Row #3" and "Man Who Sold the World," in the fall 2023 print and electronic editions of Making Waves: a West Michigan Review.

“Man Who Sold the World” is being considered as a cover image, as one of our top picks, and we will let you know as soon as a decision is made.

Thank you for your submission and for allowing us to participate in the creative process with you.

Sincerely,

Nicole Birkett, Linda Sandow, Kathy Barrett and Julia Carter

Editorial Board

Making Waves: a West Michigan Review


IN PARENTHESES LITERARY MAGAZINE:
COVER ART
Will publish 3 of my collages in spring 2024 print edition:
"Lollipop Lollipop" "The Tide is High" -- including "In the Sky of Mind" as cover art. 

In the Sky of Mind by GJ Gillespie

This is the second time my art has appeared on cover of this magazine (Fall 2021). My 16th cover art overall! 

April 11, 2024

Greetings GJ,

We hope this email finds you well. We'd like to thank you for your submission and are happy to be including your work in the Spring Issue of In Parentheses.

At this time, we are compiling the pieces of everyone's submission that will be included in the print. This process will proceed only until APRIL 12.

We are very excited to get the next issue up and running, as we are in a time that is in very much need for the spread of art.

We will send further correspondence if any part of your submission requires any action on your part. Thanks again for the opportunity to publish your work! We enjoyed it greatly.

One more quick thing, GJ, can you connect with us on twitter or instagram at @inparenth or http://inparentheses.art/ and 'like' us on facebook! http://facebook.com/inparentheses

Sincerely,

Phillipe

In Parentheses 

QUIBBLE LITERARY MAGAZINE: COVER ART!

Mull of Kintyre #2 by GJ Gillespie. 

April 30, 2024 Editor of this quarterly journal contacted me about his need for cover art. I sent him a bunch of art and he selected my collage "Mull of Kintyre #2" for cover of the magazine's web version now live.

Then he plans on using "Mull of Kintyre"for the cover of Volume II "Vessels" print edition 2024.

My 17th magazine cover!

WELTER LITERARY MAGAZINE 

Editors chose my collage "Not Dark Yet" for the cover of this print literary journal.
This is my 11th cover!

April, 3, 2023

Not Dark Yet by GJ Gillespie. 

Congratulations from Welter! 

Dear GJ,

Thank you for submitting your fine artwork to Welter. We would like to publish your submission "Not Dark Yet" in our print issue this spring 2023.

We want you to know that we're actually going to use it on our cover. It's beautiful and really fits the aesthetic of our journal.

Please confirm at your very earliest convenience that the work is still available. If this is the case, please send us your mailing address so that you may receive your contributor’s copy. While we cannot offer payment, we promise to publish your work with care and may share it additionally via social media through December 31, 2023. You retain rights to the material.

Thanks again,

Welter Editors

@WelterJournal 

READ THE INTERVIEW here 

WORD'S FAIRE MAGAZINE
Editors of this online literary journal dedicated to promoting creative works of
writers and artist has accepted several of the art piece. Art will appear in the summer 2024 issue. "Things Left Unexplained" chosen as COVER ART.
This is my 18th cover.

"Things Left Unexplained" by GJ Gillespie
COVER ART 

June 10, 2024 Dear GJ Gillespie,

Congratulations! This message confirms the acceptance of your submission to The Word's Faire. We will contact you soon with more information by email.

Thanks again.
Sincerely,
Tobi Brun, editor The Word's Faire Magazine

"Things Left Unexplained", "I Will Survive",  "Arshile Dreaming", "All You Need is Love",  "Words of Love",  "Benedictus" and "The Chimes of Freedom".



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PASSIONFRUIT REVIEW COVER ART
Editor chooses 2 of my collages for covers!  "I Want to Know What Love Is" and "Time Is On My Side" featured in upcoming issues of this literary journal. 

Time Is On My Side by GJ Gillespie.


 

This will be my 14th and 15th cover! 

December 11, 2023

Dear GJ,
Thank you for entrusting your submission to Passionfruit.
I love all three of these pieces - I would be delighted to use both 'I've Got Time On My Side' and 'I Want to Know What Love Is' as cover pieces for upcoming issues of The Passionfruit Review, if they are still available. 

I will be in touch to let you know when they go live!

All best,

Katherine, Editor
Passionfruit Review

QUBBLE LITERARY REVIEW publishes "Puzzle" in issue #9.

Puzzle by GJ Gillespie.

COVER ART -- this is my 9th cover! See art here:

Feb 27, 2023

Dear GJ Gillespie,

Congratulations

! This message confirms the acceptance of your submission entiled "Puzzle" to Quibble.Lit's Issue 9, Puzzle. Riddle. Puddle.

The planned launch for Puzzle. Riddle. Puddle. is March 1st.

This issue is going to be spectacular, and all the better for your contribution.

Please consider following us on social media.

Congratulations

again, and make sure to promote your win!

Thanks again.

Sincerely,

Garrett Souliere

Editor-in-Chief

Quibble.Lit

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COVER ART FOR LETTERS LITERARY JOURNAL

Five of my collages accepted including one for the cover!

This is my eighth magazine cover. See it here.

Resurrection 3 by GJ Gillespie.

January 11, 2023

Dear GJ Gillespie,

Thank you for sending along your work. It was a genuine joy to view your art. 

Your pieces are dynamic--their varying textures, shades, and color patterns give each piece a vivid sense of movement.

The clear insistence on the human form matched with the abstract nature of your materials and backgrounds results in work that is at once deeply human and entirely spiritual. These pieces are lovely.

We were particularly drawn to the following pieces: "Something in the Way", "Kyrie Eleison Blue,” "Resurrection 3,” "Angelus," and "Three Angels." 

With your permission, we would love to use "Resurrection 3” as the cover for our forthcoming Winter issue of Letters .

Do let us know if this is all agreeable with you.

Thank you, again, for sharing your art with us.

All the best,

Alexandra Marie Green, Managing Editor




"Letters is a semi-annual print journal of literature and visual art attending to the force and friction of religion, spirituality, and belief within contemporary experience.

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Narcissus by GJ Gillespie.

COVER ART

Editors picked my cubist figure "Narcissus" for cover of literary journal The Lunch Break Zine, issue # 4, published by alternative music site Out to Lunch Records.

This is my fifth cover.

8 other pieces also appear.

Check out the art here.

Ghost Rider by GJ Gillespie. 

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May 2021
"Ghost Rider" chosen for cover art of Sunspot Literary Journal, Issue 2. See it now.

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Fool If You Think It's Over by GJ Gillespie.

COVER ART "Fool If You Think It's Over" chosen for cover of inaugural issue of Literary Journal Kithe.

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The Way You Look Tonight by GJ Gillespie.

COVER ART "The Way You Look Tonight" chosen for cover for issue 7 of Literary Journal Hey, I'm Alive. It has appeared in several shows in the Seattle area. 

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