GOOD REED MAGAZINE
The Good Reed Magazine is being launched as an online topical periodical to a general international readership by Ridwan Treacher and Katharine O’Sullivan Walmsley.
Originally a monthly newsletter for a London community, it was decided, as a result of the newsletter readership expanding to distant continents, to go for an open readership. So the concept of an online magazine was born.
It was realised that with this expansion taking place in a general global readership, the content could move forward from reporting specific community news to providing a cross-section of copy designed to include articles, poems, reviews and a blog. In its short time online, in fact, www.goodreed.uk has attracted readers from all continents, whether individuals or members of communities.
All readers are welcome to enjoy the magazine content, and your participation is invited by letting us have your comments and reactions. Even better, submitting your stories and poems would be welcome.
Latest BLOGS

It’s Never Enough
by Fredrik Lloyd It’s never really enough, is it? We’re just kidding ourselves when we say it is. Or maybe it is, until it isn’t. But it never isn’t very long, is it? I mean when was the last time you had enough? Mostly we just go on repeat. I mean look how big Tik Tok is, and there isn’t much there […]

Wanted, Alive & Well
by Fredrik Lloyd
My mission statement, has been for many years, to make things that make people smile, and occasionally on an extremely good day, make people smile and think again about a thought they thought they knew the answer to. Not that I had the answers of course […]

Fredrik Lloyd in Oslo
Fredrik Lloyd at Oslo Group Exhibition Oslo Open in Galleri Sagene Kunstsmie Sunday 23 April 2023 12:00–17:00 “I AM PERFECT” graphic design by Fredrik Lloyd

Starting from Nothing
by Sahlan Diver. I never possessed the desire to be a writer. I was not even a reader, my limited literary recreation advancing no further than Sherlock Holmes. If, in my youth, a fortune-teller […]
Latest ARTICLES

The Art of Having No Ideas
By Laurence Shorter
The only way I’ve found that works consistently to generate an idea is to have no idea. This is harder than it sounds because we are so used to having a picture of what we are doing. In any given situation, […]

Dreams and Art
by Ramon Kubicek. Dreams occasionally visit us to leave behind their lovely or frightening traces, so it is not surprising that dreams can make their way into the work of artists. The subconscious after all is a weird improviser […]

Advice to a Young Man
By Hugo Pim. I think there’s a bit of a collective delusion that’s been going on since happiness became some kind of weird entitlement that people […]

Anonymous Dreams 22
Illustrators around the world are protesting the war in Ukraine Their work speaks about the invasion as well as in photographs and reports […]