GUD for Education!
I'm trying to get my literary + genre magazine more exposure, and our latest idea is that we can inject ourselves into education, much the way microsoft does with its donations of hardware and software. In this case, we're offering "classroom sets" of PDFs of any issue to share with your class, print segments of, whatever. This is open to any English teacher at any level (though be aware that many of our pieces are "mature" material).
About the magazine: GUD (pronounced “good”) is Greatest Uncommon Denominator, a print/pdf magazine with 200 pages of literary and genre fiction, poetry, and art. We feature fiction that ranges from 75 to 15,000 words. The hardcopy is 5"x8", slightly narrower than a mainstream paperback but solid in the hands, easy to read with one hand while drinking your coffee or munching your sandwich. Or perfect for curling up with in your favorite lounge chair, sipping tea. The PDF is roughly 3MB, an easy enough download for any cable modem, and not unreasonable on dial-up.
Issue 0 leads with Debbie Moorhouse’s Sundown, a near-future science fiction reflection on death and life. It follows through with a solid variety of works from semi-gritty fantasy; far-future time travel; modern sci-fi humor; historical paranormal; mainstream literary; a fable; poetry that doesn’t rhyme but has a rhythm (involving coffee, mayhem, love, death, and television); reports concerning poetry and software and narrating a journey to a poetry conference in Taiwan; and art of all sorts, from humorous and surreal line drawings through haunting brush work and even a single-pane comic from a celebrated illustrator.
Issue 1 comes to life with Darby Larson's "Electroencephalography where an experiment in robot-building goes terribly awry. And if you've ever woken up with an unexpected physical deformity-say, an arrow in your heart-you'll truly enjoy the next story. There's also a smattering of flash fiction and psychedelia; a straight-out story where things aren't what they seem, poetry that takes you from the perverse to the sublime, some magic realism, science fiction, and a few letters to another species thrown in for good measure. We haven't forgotten those of you with a literary bent. In addition, the artwork in this issue is particularly strong, with oil paintings, watercolors, photography, and photo illustrations complementing the words with which they are paired.
If you're interested, please email us at classroom@gudmagazine.com and tell us a little bit about the course you're considering us for.
