Guilded
Periodically
Original content by The Fiction Forge
Podcast AND AUDIOBOOK Production in collaboration with Enhance Productions
About The Fiction Forge
The Fiction Forge is a collaborative group of creators from underrepresented communities. These creators have unique voices they each use to breed change and spread positivity to the world. Together, you can expect to see impactful literary and visual art that tells the stories of their lives and their communities.
About guilded periodically
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. PODCAST INFO COMING SOON.
Why “Guilded Periodically”?
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.
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Our Members
The guild master
The master mind
sentence-crafter and friendly neighborhood fortune teller
Hues is a 29 year old building and artistic thempire. They spend most of their time reading, writing or exorcising their creative demons! Hues is currently attending grad school, and is hoping to be finished with their debut novel: The Millennial Lyfe of Heatstroke Masonjar by Winter 2024! Blessed with a creative vision Hues started the fiction forge in February 2022 to make space for the voices that have been forgotten here in North America, while preserving their unique creative experiences.
The Equipment Manager
The Master Builder
lego enthusiast and ray of sunshine with a lion’s mane
Ben, age 29, is a jack-of-all-trades who proudly utilizes their wide range of experience as a foundation for community building and creative works. A tinkerer at heart and passionate builder of many things Lego, Ben serves as the Equipment Director for The Fiction Forge, making sure their members have what they need to bring their creative works into the real.
The Illustrator
The AnimAtion mage
the calming tarot reader, quest giver, and friend to all
Looch is an illustrator and animator living in upstate New York. The bulk of their work is focused on themes of community, creativity, and personal exploration. They are inspired by possibilities of the future of human interaction with nature and the promotion of social responsibility. They like to maintain a sense of wonder and curiosity for the world we live in, and have it shine through in their personal projects!
ThE Poet
The Hypnotic speaker
full-time dog walker, part-time dragoness, all-time poet
Drusilla is a dragon…literally. Haha. But seriously speaking, Dru grew up reading anything fantasy fiction oriented they could get their hands on. They’ve always had a love for animals due to the ease of the bonds Dru formed with them in comparison to other humans. Dru has grown tremendously by meeting and building a wider community of like-minded individuals focused on creating a better world. “We focus on what we can do for ourselves and one another. Each one teach one. Children walking each other home, ect ect , beautiful sayings like that.” Dru’s current creative passions are impromptu spoken word, poetry, painting, drawing, singing, and being in nature to tie it all together. The river is their “bestie”, relating to the constant state of flux, flow, and change. “However, I have a cat named Havoc that I have full blown conversations with, and a Dragon tattoo on my left arm so… I guess some things never change.”
ThE Writer
The writer..like writes all. the. time
the forge’s future first New york times best selling author and k-pop’s best finger heart maker
Miro is “just a silly guy” trying to publish books, and make people happy, through video games and stories. Sharing stories is what helped them a bunch as a kid and their dream is to return forward the comfort and support they got from the way stories can build community.
ThE Producer
The idealist
has great follow through and tons of anxiety along the way
Samm is a filmmaker, writer, podcast host, farmer, and all-things-spooky enthusiast. His love for story-telling began when he was in the fourth grade. His teacher took special interest in his creativity. She brought him a blank book to class one day and said “write me a story I can keep with my book collection in my classroom so I can be the first person to ever have one of your books”. Since then, one of Samm’s life goals is to be a published author. His love for film came from the realization that if he knew how to make a book into a movie, then he could make his own books into movies and make sure that they’re done well.
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