While looking for new backers.

there's a surprise. I forsaw as much 6 months ago. Dan Crowe used to ed a magazine called Butterfly - went belly up. Pattern here?

I bought a copy of Zembla in the bookshop last year.

I buy one whenever I can but have never been impressed by the fiction. what about you?

Sorry Jai, I missed your reply until now! I picked up a copy once because I saw it had fiction in it. While I can't remember exactly what the story was, I know it didn't strike me as a fit.

I love the stories in Prospect. (I think of Prospect because, like Zembla, it's a magazine with short stories thatyou can buy on the high street.) My favourite was this one set in a Greek village where a young man finds what looks like one of the ancient gods, sleeping on the ground....

Which gets me to thinking, why is it that so few of the literary magazines are available in the bookshops here? In the US they're routinely available - maybe not all of them, but a lot of them. That is so sad!

Hi Ani, after you mentioned the Al Alvarez article, I looked for Prospect in both Waterstones (my branch sells lots of mags) and W.H. Smith and couldn't find it. Is it widely distributed?

Adele.

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I meant my local branch - sadly I don't own it :(

I would have thought it's widely distributed. The circulation figure in my Writer's Handbook is 24,500.

I buy it at the W H Smith's in Falmouth (with a population a little shy of 20,000!) It's strange that they don't carry it at yours as you're in London! LOL Go figure.

I bet they'll get you a copy if you as for it.

Thanks Ani. Obviously I've been out of the City for too long. My mantra used to be "you don't ask, you don't get" - must remember that!