It is with heavy hearts that we announce that Issue 35 of Prole shall be our swansong. Issue 36 is no longer forthcoming. We realise that this will be a huge disappointment to those we accepted for publication going back to the beginning of the year and puzzling for those recently accepted. The decision was not taken lightly and we agree that we are responsible for poor communication between ourselves.

The last fifteen years has been quite a ride, from our first submission call wondering if anyone would even humour us, to putting on workshops (twice ran by a US writer incorporating us into her UK visits), open mics, meeting wonderful people.

However, life often gets in the way and the lives of both editors have changed quite drastically and have not been without professional and personal stress. We thought reducing our issues from three a year to two would help free up some time, we were wrong.

Also we are finding it hard to receive the amount of submissions that we consider of quality deserving publication. Are we setting the bar too high? Are our hearts just not in it anymore? Is Brett tired of typing, “Read the fucking submission guidelines”?

Some time back Brett stated, we’re paraphrasing here, “Don’t ponce about saying you are the editor of this or that mag if you don’t have the time to dedicate it to treat your readers and writers with respect.”  Well, it would appear that we don’t.

We did consider offering Prole out to anyone interested in keeping the name going but we think that may be too painful for us to see.

Financial arrangements will be made to those who have already invested in subscriptions.

A huge thank you to all who have supported us in any way, you will never know how huge a thank you, to all submitted (whether we published you or not, remember no journal is anything without those who submit), all who were featured, our readers, our competition judges, everyone.

Goodbye/Hwyl Fawr

Phil Robertson and Brett Evans