Playboy and mother. However, the publisher of an unrelated men's adventure magazine, "Stag," contacted Hefner and informed him it would file suit to protect their trademark if he were to launch his magazine with that name. Hefner, his wife Millie, and Sellers met to seek a new name, considering "Top Hat", "Gentleman", "Sir'", "Satyr", "Pan" and "Bachelor" before Sellers suggested "Playboy". The first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen. The first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a
December (magazine) Book Award winners, 5 O. Henry Award winners, and 9 Guggenheim fellows. "December" was revived in 2012 by journalist and fiction writer Gianna Jacobson, and Volume 24 was released in December 2013. "December" releases two issues per year. The revival issue features new material from several of "december"'s original contributors as well as from some contemporary authors and artists. "December" also has two contests each year, the Curt Johnson Prose Awards, judged in 2015 by Joyce Carol Oates and Albert Goldbarth, and the Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize. It accepts submissions and only publishes original, previously unpublished work. December (magazine)