It lasted until the issue of March–April 1969, by which time it was published by Larston D. Farrar in Washington, D.C.[1] During the pulp magazine era, it was a de facto trade journal, alongside Writer's Digest, for the pulp publishers and freelance contributors.
The magazine was originally titled The Student Writer, and ran under that name from January 1916 through September 1923.
Editor Hawkins was a regular contributor to the pulps, even placing the lead story in the first issue of pioneering fantasy magazine Weird Tales (March 1923).
The couple worked together in 1909 on the editorial staff of the Pinkerton Academy yearbook The Critic.
[7] Alan Swallow (1915–66), author of the Advising the Beginner column, purchased the magazine with three friends.
Raffelock disappeared from the magazine without fanfare after the September 1950 issue, and became a freelance writer, while Swallow became the sole editor.
With the July 1959 issue, Newell Edward Fogelberg (1916–1997), who was born the year the magazine was established, became the new publisher and editor, assisted by his wife Josephine.
[12] Under Ellithorpe's ownership, the magazine didn't publish the issues from November 1963 through January 1964, and October 1964 through March 1965.
With the April 1965 issue, Larston Dawn Farrar (1915–1970) became the new owner, moving the magazine to Washington, D.C., where his business was located, and hiring others as editors.
With the last issue of the year, dated October–November–December, Farrar took over as editor and his formerly robust Editorial Advisory Board, which had listed nine names, disappeared from the pages.
The last issue has an ad soliciting subscription renewals, and no obvious clues that cancellation was in the offing.
The back cover of the last issue has an ad for Farrar’s book, How to Make $18,000 a Year Free-Lance Writing.
In the December 1929–December 1930 issues, Hawkins ran a 13-part series by Edwin Baird titled How to Write a Detective Story.
"[15] Under his auspices, in the Oct–Nov–Dec 1965 issue, in a new Student Writer Section, the magazine introduced fictional content, something which it had never done in the past.
The last issue, January–February 1969, contains two page-length poems by editor Larston D. Farrar, both commemorating the two recent assassination victims: "Our Bobby Is Gone (For Those Who Admired Him)," and "Oh!