Unsolicited submissions to Ardent! of poetry and original art are welcome. We are open to reading all topics, types, styles and lengths.
Readers who are looking for something new and stimulating to read will find our new literary journal a refresing entry. When we decided to publish, we made a conscious decision to avoid the clichéic circumscription of art found too often in literary publishing. While we will maintain standards as demanding as any literary publisher, we impose no arbitrary peception of literary quality based solely on personal preference.
Our meta index of the leading literary competitions is only one of several indexes in our poetry resources section that include: a poetry contest index, fiction contest index, publishers index, our poetry contest directory, writing contest directory, fiction contest directory, nonfiction contest index, literary links, publisher database, literary agency links, jobs links for writers and other resources for poets and writers are just part of what we are doing for the writing community.
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We have also expanded our Web site to include interactive features, like a poetry forum for discussion of poetry and poetry critique groups, and a never ending poem page, AddAVerse, where users can create a poem.
We are also working on developing a comprehensive creative writing instruction and information section for our poetry resources pages.
The effort is ongoing to create the definitive, informative and easily navigated publishers catalog, poetry contest catalog and writing contest catalog to include a fiction contest catalog, a nonfiction contest catalog and many others across the range of publishing and honors offered.
The indexes also include a college writing programs index, university writing programs index, a writers' center index, poetry festival index, writers' retreat index and many other features.