celebrates its third year online

OLYMPIA, WA - October 1, 1998 (PM)- After three years of publishing prize-winning poetry, fiction, and commentary, Pif Magazine celebrates an anniversary rarely reached in the online world.

Pif Magazine, dubbed "the Starting Point for the Literary e-Press," is a free online magazine paid for strictly by advertisers. Pif publishes a poetry section, a short story section ("Macro Fiction"), a short-short fiction section ("Micro Fiction"), an interview column, a travel section, music reviews, book reviews, film reviews, e-zine reviews, a bookstore, theme-oriented commentary, searchable archives, and a Writers Only classifieds section. The magazine is also home to Pilot, the internet’s largest literary search engine. Pilot is located at   http://www.pifmagazine.com/pilot.

Pif proudly publishes both well-known and up-and-coming writers. Past contributors have included Amy Hempel, David Lehman, Liam Rector, and Jorge Zentner. Past cover art has included cartoonist Shannon Wheeler of Too Much Coffee Man, award-winning photographer Boguslaw Mosielski, and painter Cassandra Barney.

In celebration of its online anniversary, Pif is running a Best of Pif Issue for the month of October 1998. This issue number 17 will include the magazine’s best fiction, poetry, art, and commentary from the past three years. The issue will also include articles on the future of the literary e-press by the editors of such noted e-zines as GeorgeJr.com and Recursive Angel Online.

During the next six months Pif will publish a Sex Issue (Nov ‘98), a Winter Reading Issue (Dec ‘98), a Music Issue (Jan ‘99), a Religion Issue (Feb ‘99), and a Cars Issue (Mar ‘99). For details on these and more, see http://www.pifmagazine.com/mediakit/.