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The Guilded Periodically Podcast and Audiobook
Guilded Periodically the Podcast coincides with the literary magazine of the same name. The literary magazine created by The Fiction Forge showcases the art and writing of its founding members and associates.
Guilded Periodically: Spring 2024 Edition
Guilded Periodically is a literary magazine created by The Fiction Forge showcasing the art and writing of its founding members and associates. The magazine will showcase poems, short stories, visual art, interview transcriptions, horoscopes, and more. The first edition of the magazine will be paired with a podcast where readers and listeners will have the opportunity to get to know the creators of the magazine in a more personal way.
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Guilded Periodically, as a title for our project is a play on the words “guild”, “gild” and a miss rhyme of the word “jilted”. Guild as we know is an association of craftsmen and merchants. We are that guild, and as such is represented in the spelling of the name. Gild, pronounced the same as the previous spelling, which is defined as thinly veiled with gold or to give misleading appearance too. This is a commentary toward the general “fake it til you make it” mentality that has brought us all together here, but also reminds us as the members that no matter the amount we have value. The miss rhyme of jilt, meaning to be suddenly rejected or abandoned, is a commentary on the way in which this society has abandoned its creatives. Thus resulting in a generation of “jilted” creatives. Periodically, both refers to the type of magazine we are making: a periodical and the interval in which us as these abandoned creatives can only seasonally seem to both feel and create. It is an ode to our healing, and a recognition of our true strength through the acknowledgement of our failures leading us to our successes. Other ways the title can be read by connotation: Golden Periodically, Jilted Periodically, Guilded Period/Gilded Period.