The Guide to Beyond

People are curious. Even people who are not named George. Often, these curious people ask us how they can help in the making of Beyond. We are happy to share the goodness, for yea and verily, we meet many wonderful and creative folk through conversation, page, paint, and musical notes.

Here are some of the best ways you can share in the goodness:

Subscribe – every subscription helps keep Beyond beautiful, printing and ads free. It takes only a few minutes  to become part of Beyond’s reader community. If you are already a subscriber, give a gift subscription to someone you know and/or someone you don’t know! Open-ended gift subscriptions allow us to send Beyond to shelters, libraries, literacy groups, and writing and arts centers. We’ll let you know where your gift subscription ends up in the universe.

Get someone else to subscribe – parents and siblings, neighbours and friends, lovers and enemies. Let them know about Beyond and invite them to join the fun.

Donate – help feed an artist or writer. At Beyond, we consider ourselves part of a community of very creative folks – some are established and some are scraping together 39 cents for their next meal of noodles and simulated cheese. One of our goals is to be able to pay our artistic contributors a fair and living wage for their work. Support artists and writers.

Volunteer – you may live near us or in a land far, far away. It doesn’t matter. We have all sorts of ways you can become involved from your corner of the planet. Send us an email with the words, “Yes! I am excited by the opportunities presented to me by the possibility of becoming a Beyond volunteer from where I live!” in the subject. Or you could just put “Beyond volunteer.” Sometimes shorter is better.

Visit the web – take a look at our history, see who is an active part of Beyond, read, participate in our blog, sign up for regular updates, and just generally poke around to see what’s going on in our world. Remember to wave hello.

 Contribute – if you are a writer or a visual artist, let us take a look at your work while you take a look at our submission guidelines. We’re always happy to meet folks who want to be part of Beyond. As you can see, we publish essays, poetry, interviews, short stories, and excerpts from larger works. We also publish photography, illustrations, paintings, drawings, sketchbook pages, and art projects. And we're always looking for blog entries. That thing really has an appetite.

Other bits of fun – You may want to run through the streets screaming “Beyond! Beyond!”  You may want to just send us a real, live letter so we can know there are other little feet tapping and hearts pumping out there. You may want to feed your blog's appetite with a little hat tip to Beyond.

And that's how you make the little magazine about a lot of things.