GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator

This project is believed to be defunct. (September 2013)

About

GUD (pronounced "good") is Greatest Uncommon Denominator, an award-winning print/pdf magazine with two hundred pages of literary and genre fiction, poetry, art, and articles.

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Publication Media & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Published 2 x per year
Print Publication Print Publication: Published 2 x per year

Collapse section Fiction Believed Defunct

Our dictionary defines literature thus: written works, esp. those valued for form and style. And that is what we are looking for—form and style, though be sure there's substance as well. Any genre, including literary or mainstream, is acceptable. We don't back away from a fight—if your work screws with convention, breaks rules, makes demands of the reader, then we're equal to the challenge. Just please, by whatever you hold dear, give us some prize at the end of the fight.

Audience:

Unknown

Genres:

Open to all/most Genres, including:
General Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Slipstream
Fantasy Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Slipstream, Weird/New Weird
Horror Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Slipstream, Weird/New Weird
Science Fiction Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Slipstream, Weird/New Weird
Western Open to all/most Subgenres

Lengths:

Flash Fiction: 20 - 1,000 words.
Short Story: 1,000 - 7,500 words.
Novelette: 7,500 - 15,000 words.

Styles:

Literary.

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) Royalties Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word). Royalties.
Note: We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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If you have something new to say, something that rocks the boat, challenges conventional thinking, we're ready. Political, topical, contentious—we can handle it. But don't vent. Get off your soap-box. Make your point, but do it intelligently. The key words here are research and balance. If you're doing an interview and we haven't heard of the interviewee, why should we care what they have to say? Make us. And if we have heard of them, make them open up, tell us something we didn't already know.

Audience:

Unknown

Lengths:

Interview: 20 - 15,000 words.
Article: 20 - 15,000 words.
Essay: 20 - 15,000 words.

Styles:

Literary.

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word).
Note: We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

Collapse section Poetry Believed Defunct

Make something our readers will remember, make something they'll tell a friend about. We want to feel there is reason behind every stroke yet we want craftsmanship as a vehicle for the expression, not the other way around.

Audience:

Unknown

Genres:

Lengths:

Poem: No line limits known.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms.

Styles:

Literary.

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

Semi-pro payment (US$5-49 per poem) Royalties Semi-pro payment (US$5-49 per poem). Royalties.
Note: We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Last Updated: 22 May 2026