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GUD is TIMELESS

GUD is modern in business, method, and execution, but timeless in message. GUD is published twice a year, for your reading pleasure.

GUD is FOR THE WRITER

A simple submission process, and money split evenly. Most fiction and literature magazines, especially starting, print at a loss. We are twisting the business model on its end so that the content can sell itself. We sell in a multitude of formats and will even split advertising and merchandising with you during an issue's run. Even after an issue is "done", the royalties can continue to pour in through backorders and partial content orders. Check out our submission guides, payment info, and submission stats!

GUD is FOR THE READER

Fiction, information, poetry, art. The best of the best. We can print the quality that we do because our business model is built for artists and consumers, not for ourselves. We want to grow a business, but we want to grow the complete circuit of the business, the great circle of life, not just ourselves. And GUD is flexible—if you know you just have to read one particular piece, you can do a partial content order, buying the relevant pages of the magazine.

GUD is FOR US

Pride and wonder.

GUD is FOR YOU

You can buy us as a PDF, or you can buy us as an actual magazine. Twice a year, we will print a 5.5" x 8.5" journal, perfect bound, containing approximately 200 pages of art and writing. In either case, you are paying for the information that is GUD.

GUD is FOR THE COMMUNITY

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Staff

The Editors can be reached at editor@gudmagazine.com. Please keep in mind that we accept submissions solely through this form on the website, and not via email nor "snail" mail.

Julia Bernd

Julia grew up in Illinois but now lives in San Francisco. She would be a linguist if she and academia hadn't had a falling-out a few years back, but for now she works as a peace activist. Besides GUD, she edits or has edited for Night Train and NFG. She likes to think she's open to enjoying work in any genre, but admits that she probably has higher standards for some than others. Good characters are the best hook.

Julia joined GUD with Issue 0 as copyeditor.

Sal Coraccio

Sal lives on a lake between the mountains and seacoast of New Hampshire where he's a writer, a father, a teacher, a corporate drone and always—a poet. His published works have appeared in NFG, The Writer's Journal, The Pedestal and The Wild City Times among others. Sal appreciates poetry that shows something interesting in an original way with craft and purpose.

Kaolin Fire

Kaolin Fire is a conglomeration of ideas, side projects, and experiments. He loves to program in c, php, jsp; talk in the third person; write fiction; and teach. He supports himself by way of his partnership in a web development firm, and dabbles in doing the odd e-book cover for Renaissance eBooks, and teaching at a community college. Kaolin is especially interested in trends of technology, ritual, consciousness, dreaming, artificial intelligence, the nature of intelligence, the meaning of life, reincarnation, religion, and programming (of all sorts). He's had short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Right Hand Pointing, and Tuesday Shorts, among others. A more complete bio and publication credits can be found on his personal website.

Sue Miller

Sue Miller lives in Connecticut with an assortment of goldfish. She has been an editor for Night Train, Story Garden 6, and NFG. Having a very short attention span, she's a fan of flash fiction. Learn more about her at her website. Etc.

Debbie Moorhouse

Debbie Moorhouse is a British writer who also takes photographs. She used to be Submissions Manager for NFG and currently reads slush for ASIM. The short story is her favourite form, which makes it puzzling that her shorts tend to grow into novels. She had an article published in Strange Horizons once.

Debbie's story Sundown led GUD Issue 0; she joined the copyediting team with Issue 1.

Reviewers

Jessie Nash

Jessie is a British writer, grown and genetically modified in a field in Essex. Disturbing short stories and depressing poems turn her on, lots. As well as reviewing books and music she likes to pretend that one day she'll be a novelist. She has a BA in Creative Writing.

Alumni

Mike Coombes

founding Editor, through Issue 0

Mike Coombes lives in England. His credits include "Albedo One", "Atmosfeer" (in Dutch), "The Fractal", "If?", "Jupiter", "NFG", "Aesthetica", "Internet Review of Science Fiction", and "Black October". Mike was also twice winner of the Imaginaries Rising Star Award for Best Fantasy in 1997 and 1999. Until its untimely demise he was a senior fiction editor at NFG magazine. Mike likes to read anything prickling with ideas.

Jill Stockinger

Reviewer during Issue 2

Jill spent nineteen years in New York, and then left! She has lived in seven states—New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, Oregon, Washington, often in confusion—and now California for the last ten years. She received a BA with honors from U. Wisconsin-Madison, and her Masters in Library Science from U Wisconsin-Madison Graduate Library School. Married to an artist, Max, and happy as a parent and working librarian, she has still managed to keep writing. She has also helped edit several small poetry and literary mags since college—including Spectrum, Primavera and NFG. Anything well-written is a turn-on!

Privacy Policy

For Subscribers, Registered Users, and Visitors

GUD respects your privacy. We will never sell or share your contact information with any third parties. We gather certain information about our visitors for our own statistical purposes, and do not share it with anyone. That being said, anything you post in our public forum (the blog) becomes property of GUD. Content of letters to the editor(s) may be used in the magazine, or for promotional purposes, with permission.