Prole

02/11/2025

Our domain, to which all our emails are attached, is likely to disappear soon. If you need to contact us by email, please use our temporary address: prole2025 at aol.com

01/11/2025

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 fu***ng 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 as subscribers.
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.
We have tried sending this to all in our inbox, all who were to appear in Issue 36 but some emails have bounced back so apologies if you are only seeing it here for the first time.

Goodbye/Hwyl Fawr

Phil Robertson and Brett Evans

05/10/2025

Three poems from our poetry ed. Huge thanks to Neil Fulwood:
https://www.openbook.org.uk/chainlink/2025/10/01/brett-evans-three-poems/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNPcVlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHndUn9Iu5KDDQYeD_0eSFBBxs3rIYUXz8T_DvPriMrZzLDvmKLtroItRzLW6_aem_YtR5sl6mgMRmYO2lXji0ug

Argument for Devolved Media in Cymru And we finish our tour of Conwy Castlein the Cunt’s Tower; here’s Rod Liddletied to a chair. That bloodied rag now gagsa toothless mouth and broken nose –we wea…

23/08/2025

Emotional stuff.

17/06/2025

Robert Mitchum - actor and poet - thinking 'read the fu***ng submission guidelines.'

16/06/2025

Our poetry ed is pleased to have two poems in the latest Poetry Salzburg Review, thanks to editor Wolfgang Gortschacher. I'm looking forward to making my way through the issue over the next week or so.
He is particularly glad that 'Sam' found a good home.
https://www.poetrysalzburg.com/psr-main.htm

15/06/2025

10/06/2025

Has it been 15 years I have been having to repeat 'Read the fu***ng submission guidelines'? If so then at least read the email you get if you have not - bloke sends an attachment, I explain we do not open unsolicited attachments and to resubmit by pasting poems into the body of his email and he resends the attachment. It is not getting read.

On the up side I have also received a thread of emails, one highlight being the person letting another know they had sent a Christmas card to Adrian Chiles.

Rock and roll poetry.

04/05/2025

We seriously recommend his collections Exploding Chippewas and The Feathered Heart.

Native American poet Mark Turcotte was introduced on Tuesday by Governor JB Pritzker as our state’s latest official poet.

15/04/2025

Ahhhhhh...

07/04/2025

Our poetry ed in Poetry Scotland's 'sassy sibling' Gallus.
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