Magazine Data File

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Magazine Issues

Pot-Pourri

Country: UK

Magazine of "stage, screen, humour, fiction and fashion".

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1946 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Hadley Publishing Co. Ltd., 92 Trafalgar Street, Brighton
Editors: Michael Hadley

Potpourri

Country: US

Short stories, poetry, essays; circulation 4,000.

Issues & Index Sources: 1989 – 2003?

Publishers:   P.O. Box 8278, Prairie Village, KS 66208 (in 1998 - 2000)
Editors:   Polly W. Swafford (in 1998 - 2000)
Formats:   quarto
Pagecounts:   76pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Mentioned in:   O. Henry Awards Website (not in 2001 or 2002)

Pottersfield Portfolio

Country: Canada

"Pottersfield Portfolio is always looking for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and photography that provides fresh insights and delivers the unexpected. The work that captures our attention will effectively blend an intriguing voice with imaginative language. Our readers expect to be challenged, enlightened and entertained."

Dead acc. SGI Dec-2002.

Issues & Index Sources

1979 – in 2000s

Email Address: pportfolio@seascape.ns.ca

Publishers

in 1998: P.O. Box 27094, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4M8 Canada
in 2000 – 2002: P.O. Box 40, Station A, Sydney, Nova Scotia, B1P 6G9 Canada

Editors

  in 1985: Lesley Choyce
  in 1998: Ian Colford
  in 2002: Douglas Arthur Brown

Frequency

thrice yearly

Mentioned in: O. Henry Awards Website (in 2002)

Practical Computing

Country: UK

UK computer magazine that published some fiction by Dave Langford.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1978 – 1987:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   IPC Electrical Electronic Press Ltd
Editors:   Peter Laurie
Related Sites:   Wikipedia

Practical Electrics

Country: US

A popular science magazine which regularly published fiction. Title was changed to The Experimenter with the November 1924 issue, in which incarnation, it published only one piece of fiction, a serialized reprint of Ark of the Covenant by Victor MacClure, from November 1924 to January 1926.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1921 – Oct-1924:

Science Fiction Index

(only fiction indexed)

Nov-1924 – Feb-1926, as The Experimenter:

Science Fiction Index

#merges with Science and Invention



Issue Checklist

Practical English

see under Scholastic Voice

Practical Ideals

Country: US
Total Issues: 134?

Official organ of the Woman's International League of Right Thinking and Right Living. Probably mostly non-fiction but did run some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1900 – Jan-1912?

Publishers:   Starr Publishing, Boston, MA
Editors:   Paul Gierasch
Formats:   standard
Frequency:   monthly

Prairie

Country: US
Total Issues: 2+3=5

Issues & Index Sources

Sep-1922 – Oct-1922, as Milwaukee Arts Monthly

Nov-1922 – Mar/Apr-1943, as Prairie:

FictionMags Index

(partial issues only)

Publishers

Sam Pessin, Milwaukee

Editors

Sam Pessin

Prairie Fire

Country: Canada

Canadian literary magazine; #67 Summer 1994 special speculative fiction issue; 'literary immortality' series provides for donors to be written into stories and poems. Circulation 1,500

Issues & Index Sources

Spring 1979 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Website: www.prairiefire.ca
Email Address: prfire@escape.ca

Publishers

Prairie Fire, 423-100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1H3 Canada (in 1998 - 2002)

Editors

?: Candas Jane Dorsey
1998 – present: Andris Taskans

Formats

review size

Frequency

quarterly

Mentioned in: O. Henry Awards Website (in 2002)

The Prairie Library

Country: UK
Total Issues: 57

Issues & Index Sources

15-Apr-1919 – 10-Jul-1920:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

#incorporated into Nugget Library (UK)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Editors

Len Pratt; John Nix Pentalow (Managing Editor?)

Pagecounts

36pp

Frequency

weekly

Prairie Pranks

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1949: FictionMags Index

Publishers:   Utopian Press, 22 Roland Gardens, London SW7
Prices:   2/6d
Pagecounts:   32pp

Prairie Schooner

Country: US

Regularly publishes two or three stories per issue. Authors include Tennessee Williams, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Russo, Willa Cather, Loren Eiseley, Ron Hansen, Marilyn Hacker, Steve Stern. Circulation 3,200.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1927 – present:	Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970	(Missing: 1971-1974 at least)
	Short Story Index	(Missing: 1971-1974 at least)

Website: prairieschooner.unl.edu

Publishers

201 Andrews Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0334 (in 1998 - 2002)

Editors

  1926 – 1956: Lowry C. Wimberly
  1956 – 1963: Karl Shapiro
  1963 – 1980: Bernice Slote
  1980 – 1987: Hugh Luke
  1987 – present: Hilda Raz

Formats

review

Pagecounts

200pp

Frequency

quarterly

Mentioned in: O. Henry Awards Website (in 2002)

The Prairie Star

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  1999 – 2000

Publishers:   P.O. Box 923, Fort Collins, CO 80522-0923 (in 2000)
Editors:   Mark Gluckstern (in 2000)
Mentioned in:   O. Henry Awards Website (not in 2001 or 2002)