About The Angler
The Angler has two incarnations. It's a print magazine published three times a year, and it has an online companion that is an alternative literary magazine for drinkers, thinkers, and idlers. Both are edited and published by Donavan Hall. The Angler started as a hybrid print/email magazine and had an initial run of nearly 100 issues. The print version of The Angler resumes publication in the summer of 2008.
The online incarnation of The Angler, launched in January 2006, is dedicated to providing a space for new and established authors to showcase their work. The focus of the magazine is creative non-fiction and short fiction.
If you wish to submit a work of short fiction or creative non-fiction for inclusion in The Angler, please see the submission guidelines.
I intend to publish The Angler in a different way than most other literary journals. Instead of a monthly or quarterly publication schedule, I will publish stories continuously as I accept them. In the future I will have several issues open for submission and you can submit to any of them or, if your story doesn't fit, I'll open a new issue.
When an issue fills up, I'll close it. Authors whose work is published in The Angler can reference their work by the issue number and the season or month that their story is published. I'll maintain on my website a chronological contents.
A bit of history
I'm not new to the small magazine business. In 1994 I published my first issue of an email/online magazine. The magazine has changed its name over the years along with its focus. In 2001, I started publishing a weekly print magazine called The Angler's Review; the content was primarily non-fiction: essays and reviews of books and film. Now I have decided to transform The Angler into a small literary magazine with a focus on literary and experimental fiction, creative essays, and literary criticism (primarily of fiction published in online literary magazines).
