About Wolf Magazine: A British Guide to Magazines and Literary Titles
What Wolf Magazine covers, who edits each section, and how the facts on its pages are checked.
Wolf Magazine has three parts, and each is edited by a different person. The largest is a set of guides to magazines: how the first periodicals appeared, what a cover is made of, which fashion, art, science and political titles are worth knowing, and what it takes to start one. The magazine guides are the place to begin, and the oldest magazines covers the history.
The second part is the Literary Desk, which concerns poetry. It holds a directory of UK poetry magazines with their submission windows and fees, a calendar of poetry competitions, and a run of poems, interviews, reviews and contents pages from past poetry issues, each on its own page under the Literary Desk.
The third is a Casino Guide for UK readers. It is kept apart from the rest of the site on purpose.
How the facts are checked
Dates, founding years, prices, fees and names are taken from the publisher or organiser concerned, wherever the publisher has a page of its own. Where two sources disagree, the page says so instead of picking a winner. Where a fact cannot be confirmed, it is left out, and a figure with no source does not appear.
The directory and the calendar change fastest. Each entry is read against the magazine’s or competition’s own submissions page, with the date of the check recorded, and a window that has closed is shown as closed.
The Casino Guide
The Casino Guide lists only operators that hold a licence from the UK Gambling Commission. It carries affiliate links: when a reader follows one and later opens an account, the site may be paid. That is stated plainly here and on the casino pages themselves. Gambling is for adults aged 18 or over, carries a financial risk, and is not presented anywhere on the site as a way to earn money.
The editors
- Imogen Hale edits the Literary Desk: the poetry magazine directory, the competitions calendar and the poems and interviews from the poetry pages.
- Theo Ashworth edits Magazines: history, covers, titles and the business of periodicals.
- Callum Reeve edits the Casino Guide, which covers operators that state a UK Gambling Commission licence and points readers to the Commission’s register to confirm it.
Each page carries the name of the editor responsible for it.