LITERATURE: Prairie Schooner – Is the Short Story a Dead Issue?

Posted on January 9, 2007 by Susan

While I’m still a bit backed up on my lit journal reading, I always thumb through the new issues as they come in.  Today’s mail brought the winter 2006 issue of Prairie Schooner:

6   Reviews 
4   Essays 
96  Poems
3   Short Stories

I like all things literary, but basically I’m a fiction writer and dabble some in poetry, literature reviews as an avid reader, and an occasional essay.  With the number of literary magazines out there, my questions are these:

1.  Shall I ever bother submitting to Prairie Schooner again?

2.  Which lit journal will be allowed to lapse without renewal?

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2 Responses to LITERATURE: Prairie Schooner – Is the Short Story a Dead Issue?

  1. Pete says:
    January 10, 2007 at 10:32 am

    While I realize that poems usually take up one page each, while stories can run up to twenty pages, I’m always put off by a journal with a highly imbalanced story-to-poem ratio. I’m not against poems entirely — in fact, all-story journals put me off, too. But there really needs to be balance between the two. It’s nice to have a poem or two after a short story, kind of like sherbet between courses of a meal.

  2. susan says:
    January 12, 2007 at 9:00 pm

    Yes, I too believe that the poetry is a welcome and much appreciated part of a lit journal, but this seems terribly weighted. And to read reviews rather than stories? Why?

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