Just received the Spring issue of Prairie Schooner. Looking at the address label, I can see that there is one more issue due before the subscription runs out.
While a quick look at the bookshelves reveals a backlog of fifteen–yes, that’s 15–issues of four periodicals, I still need to look over the long list of available magazines to start thinking of which I’d like to subscribe to to ensure a steady supply of reading. What I’ll be looking for is not just for the long established, well-known journals, but those that offer a focus on the short story format and a wider diversity of writing styles.
There are loads to select from; a visit to a library will help me choose along with a laptop tour of websites.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
We, Indonesian wannabe-writers, are happy today, because literary magazines are everywhere to be found–like mushrooms in the rainy season, so we say. However, most of them don’t last long. It’s quite hard to organize a literary journals due to the lack of income from advertisements.
That’s one of the biggest problems is lack of funding. With the number of lit journals, many like myself cannot afford to subscribe to more than a half dozen at a time tops. The established journals are usually those that are university based and funded, and with reason to justify their budget, they’ll be the ones likely to last. I’d started a lit journal for our writers group, but when it was taken over by the small community college where the group was based, it received blessings of money but changed dramatically in appearance and content, needing the addition of the visutal arts medium to justify its presence.