Prole Laureate Winners announced

Today we announce the winners of the Prole Laureate. Many thanks to all who entered and to our judge, Andrew McMillan. Congratulations to our winners; excellent writers, all.
To see the winning poems, visit our competition page here:
http://www.prolebooks.co.uk/page6.html

Best of British

Jaki McCarrick, who contributed Trumpet City to issue 6 of Prole, http://www.prolebooks.co.uk/page5.html is published alongside Will Self and Jeanette Winterson (to name but two) in  The Best British Short Stories 2012, published by Salt. A great achievement. Read about it here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/BestBritishShortStories or support Jaki and independent publishing and buy a copy here: http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/anth/9781907773181.htm

Close to Home, Michael Crowley

Prolebooks has just released its third short poetry collection. In his debut collection , Close to Home, poet and playwright, Michael Crowley, brings together three separate lives to create one existence in a collection that explores a displaced childhood, misplaced adults and the private moments that map a life.

This pamphlet is an invitation to experience life elsewhere, in another skin.
Sarah Hymas

http://www.prolebooks.co.uk/page10.html

Michael also has a book forthcoming, Behind the Lines, with Waterside Press.

 http://www.watersidepress.co.uk/acatalog/info_9781904380788.html

We like this one!

We came across these comments at Poets Scratching Heads - Prole punches above its weight as an up-and-coming journal, and has already made a resounding impact on the literary scene. Thanks Claire.

 http://poetsscratchingheads.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/241/

Issue 7, out now

Stop the clocks - Prole 7 is now available from our website http://www.prolebooks.co.uk/page5.html and also all you scribblers who have a story to tell, we are now open to entries of our short story competition The Prolitzer Prize http://www.prolebooks.co.uk/page8.htmlhttp://www.prolebooks.co.uk/page8.html

Sneak preview 7

Here's a sneak preview of the cover for issue 7. Watch this space, out soon.

Photograph © Eleanor Bennett

Bumper issue - coming up

Issue 7 of Prole is going to be a bumper issue. Instead of turning excellent writing down, we just made it bigger. Also including the winners of the 2012 Prole Laureate competition. Out in a couple of weeks.