Gemma explores people and places and the spaces in between. GemmaMedia brings you a host of new stories, new insights on culture and introduces new lives from Manhattan to Mumbai, Seattle to Serbia, Baghdad to Ballyvaughan.
Gemma crosses the divide between readers and writers—from well-loved authors encouraging new readers to writers revealing quiet lives and hidden communities to journalists who open distant worlds for readers at home.
In our first season, you will find a stunning personal story of life among the Gypsies in America. Lola’s Luck introduces a remarkable woman who drew a young anthropologist into her colorful society and changed her life. Lola’s story—“the story of the world!”—tells of luck, kinship, love and an entire world hidden from view.
While the main character of Oliver’s
Surprise is a 12 year old boy, his tale and the story
of a powerful weather event that still reverberates along the American
east coast, is more than appropriate for an adult audience.
Open
Door
Original works of short fiction from
some of our most beloved authors—first designed to enhance
adult literacy, yet so much more:
Lola's Luck
My Life Among
The California Gypsies
“A wild and bittersweet adventure into a world none but Machvaia
Gypsies know.”
—Susan Sarandon
As a young graduate student in anthropology,
Carol Miller predicted a future of field notes, scholarly publications
and afternoon lectures. When she began to study the Machvaia Gypsies in
Seattle and along the West Coast of America, she did not expect to be drawn
so deeply into a culture that would change her life, and those of the Gypsies. 
Oliver's Surprise
A Boy, A Schooner, and
The Great Hurricane of '38
Longing to feel closer to his favorite grandfather, Oliver skips school
on a sparkling September afternoon and hides out on a tired schooner. When
he wakes up on the ways of his grandfather’s boatyard and realizes
he’s been transported back to 1938, he must decide what to do before
the dangerous hurricane he’d been studying in school hits.