See the latest publications and awards received by ARDOR's contributors on our Contributor News page.
This year Sundress Publications received nominations from over 200 editors for their annual Best of the Net Anthology. Each editor was invited to nominate two short stories, two essays and six poems. As a new publication we were excited to nominate work from our first two issues. Today we're pleased to share good news.
Luisa A. Igloria's poem, The Loss and Recovery of Wings, was one of twenty poems selected by Judge A.E. Stallings for inclusion in this year's anthology. Additionally, we would like to congratulate our three finalists: Andrew Dutton (Fiction), Sean Finucane Toner (Nonfiction) and Liz Dolan (Poetry).
We invite you to revisit the work of Luisa, Andrew, Sean and Liz via our newsletter announcement by clicking HERE.
Exactly one year ago we launched our website and opened our doors to submissions. Today we publish Issue Three - our longest volume yet and we'll mail out over $1,000 in payment to our Issue Three contributors. In keeping with our ongoing effort to support writers we've expanded our site to include a Contributor News page where we'll share new publications, award nominations, etc. in an effort to help promote the writers whose work we've included in ARDOR. Please take a moment to check out the new page and the new issue and let us know what you think - we love to connect on Twitter and Facebook!
ARDOR officially announces its second writing contest of 2013 - a short-short or "flash" fiction contest (stories and prose-poetry up to 1,000 words). Entries will open on September 1st and close on October 31st. Joe Hessert, Founding Editor of ARDOR Literary Magazine, will serve as contest judge and offer all submissions a blind reading. The winner of the contest will receive $200 and his or her story will be published in Issue Four (January, 2014). The runner-up will receive $50 and his or her story will also be published in January. All entries will be considered for publication and, if accepted, will receive our standard short-short payment of $20.
Complete contest guidelines are available HERE.
6/30/2013 - Issue One Featured Poet Peter McNamara Offers New Chapbook!
Peter McNamara, our featured poet in Issue One, just published Orbits' Crossing through St. Andrews College Press. Jim Haba, founding director of the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival writes: "Peter McNamara is a finely discerning observer who, in these immaculately wrought poems, offers the attentive reader elegant and subtle revelations within all manner of ordinary experience: overheard conversations, chance encounters, popular song lyrics, long-familiar landscapes, the gravity and consolation of ever-changing late afternoon light. Orbits’ Crossing consistently displays both keen awareness and generous compassion."
5/15/2013 - Issue Two is Live & ARDOR Increases Contributor Pay!
ARDOR's second issue is now live and available to browse, read and share for free. Optimized for mobile and desktop browsing, we hope that you'll take advantage of our digital publishing platform's social sharing features (covered in our blog)to spread the word about ARDOR Literary Magazine. Upon publication of Issue Two our editor, Joe Hessert, announced an increase in contributor pay. ARDOR will now pay $50 minimum for prose over 1000 words, $20 minimum for prose under 1000 words in length and $15 per poem (minimum $20 paid to poetry contributors). While this is a modest increase, we're excited to be offering it during our first year of operation and hope (with your help) to continue to increase the compensation we offer contributors for their work in the years ahead.
5/7/2013 - Issue Two Coming Next Week!
We're looking forward to the launch of our second issue next Wednesday (May 15th). Issue Two features necessary short fiction, great visual poetry and new work by several great artists.
4/1/2013 - Submissions Open for Issue Three!
General submissions are now open for our third issue, coming this September. Send us your best fiction, nonfiction and poetry!
1/1/2013 - A VERY Happy New Year!
Not only does today mark the first day of 2013, it also is an historic and exciting day for ARDOR. Submissions open for our Short Story Contest, our inaugural issue is published and our website content receives a much-needed revamp. Pop the champagne!
12/1/2012 - Submissions Open for Issue Two!
Yesterday was a banner day for submissions - thank you to everyone who submitted! We received more new work yesterday than during any other day of our submission period! We're excited to spend this month preparing our first issue for publication in early January. In the meantime we remain open to submissions, this time for our second issue, coming in early May, 2013. Response times will continue to be low (typically under two weeks) during this second reading period and our commitment to paying contributors for their work continues to be a priority. Send us your best writing and artwork for the second issue!
As the submission period for our inaugural issue comes to a close today we're excited to offer you a list of our advertising rates. We offer advertisers direct-linking from their ad to their website, Twitter profile, Facebook page, and more. Advertise a call for submissions for your literary journal or advertise your latest book -- we have rates to fit every budget and if you purchase ad-space in two of our first three issues we will place the same ad in our third issue for free!
10/27/2012 - ARDOR BLOG Live!
Today we launched our blog - this is where we'll announce contest winners, write detailed posts about the magazine and answer any questions that you email to us. We'll also use this space to run relevant polls in the sidebar - inviting your input and preferences to help us determine the right course for the publication. Stop by and read the first post!
We're excited to announce that today we received our ISSN (2325-0836)!
10/14/2012 - One Month In!
We're thrilled at the welcome and response to ARDOR Literary Magazine in our first month. We received nearly 100 submissions in the first four weeks and have accepted writing and artwork from the USA, Canada, Great Britain and Qatar so far. We're eager to continue reading your exciting submissions between now and the Nov. 30th submission deadline for Issue One, coming this January.
We're also pleased with the broad base of followers we've gained on Twitter - we're nearing 1,000 followers in just over a month and many of these individuals have also subscribed to our mailing list.
Several of you have sent us donations in the mail - for which I'm deeply grateful. To make it easier for folks interested in donating to ARDOR we're now set up to accept secure online donations via PayPal by clicking the link at right. Please specify if you'd like your donation to be put toward a specific purpose (writing contest funds, payment to contributors, web-hosting expenses, etc.) and we'll be certain to honor that request. You're welcome to send us detailed instructions with how you'd like your donation put to use via email.
We're pleased to partner with Amazon.com through their associate program. While we encourage you to support your local bookstore, we realize that sometimes it's more convenient to shop online (we are an electronic publication after all).
As an Amazon affiliate, ARDOR Literary Magazine earns a small commission (6%) on any purchases you make on Amazon after using the link below to navigate to their site. Any purchases made (books, e-books, e-readers, music, electronics, etc.) qualify and will help to support us by offsetting our operating costs and increasing the amount of compensation we're able to offer writers for their work.
With the holidays coming up, this is a great way to support ARDOR while conveniently shopping for gifts (or for yourself) online!
Big thank you to Joshua Bodwell over at the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance for listing ARDOR Literary Magazine and for giving us a nod in their most recent newsletter!
We're very pleased to announce that ARDOR Literary Magazine has been added to two great databases: The Review Review and Every Writer's Resource. We're excited by all of the new traffic and attention that this will bring to our site and look forward to updating our listings in each of these databases once our first issue is available in January!
9/19/2012 - Launch Week in the Books!
We had a very successful launch week - we have over 600 followers on Twitter and we received more than 30 unsolicited submissions to consider for our first issue. Several submissions have already come in for our logo contest and they look great ... it will be difficult to wait until December to choose a winner based on what I've seen so far!
I genuinely appreciate all of the support and interest we've received during launch week and hope that the enthusiasm continues. If this first batch of submissions is any indication of what is to come I'm excited about how good our first issue will be.
9/16/2012 - New Database Listing!
ARDOR is very happy to be listed in Duotrope. You can visit their site by clicking the link at right. We'd be grateful if you tracked your submissions on Duotrope and reported our response time so that other writers can see how quickly we respond to new submissions! Thanks to Duotrope for listing ARDOR Literary Magazine in your database.
We’re in the market for a well-designed logo for ARDOR Literary Magazine. We’re looking for something no larger than 4”x 4” and the winning submission will successfully integrate our publication name into the design.
Submit your best work by the end of the day on Friday, November 30, 2012. We’ll announce the winner by the end of December and feature the winning logo in our first three issues of ARDOR, crediting you as the designer with a brief bio. The designer of the winning logo will receive a token payment of $20 upon publication of our first issue. Click the link above to submit your logo!
We've had our Twitter up and running for about a week, but we're pleased to say that ARDOR now has a Facebook page as well. Check it out, "Like" us and "Share" with your friends and fellow writers! We genuinely appreciate all of your support as we work to get the word out about ARDOR.
9/12/12 - ARDOR Open for Submissions!
Thrilled that we're up and running! Submittable, our website, mailing list and twitter account are all up and running and we're incorporated as an official non-profit. We're looking forward to diving into the first batch of submissions as we gather writing and artwork for our first issue, scheduled to be published in January 2013. Send us your best!
9/11/12 - ARDOR Literary Magazine Incorporated as a New Non-Profit!
We're excited to announce that ARDOR was accepted by the State of Maine as an incorporated non-profit today. We haven't applied for 501-c-3 status yet, but plan to in the future so that we can receive tax-deductible donations to use toward writing contests and improvements to the site and publication.
If you're lookin for writing opportunities, ARDOR is proud to have produced a comprehensive list of poetry contests and a long list of literary agents looking for new writers to represent.