ARDOR Literary Magazine: Short Story Contest
[Our Flash Fiction Contest is currently open. Guidelines & a link to our submission manager are available HERE.]
2013
Contest Closed

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The 2013 ARDOR Short Story Contest was open to submissions of short fiction up to 8,500 words in length from January 1, 2013 to March 31, 2013. The story selected as the winner will receive a prize of $500 and will be published alongside a short author-interview as ARDOR’s Featured Prose in Issue Three (September 2013). All entries will be considered for publication in ARDOR. Chris Offutt will serve as guest judge for the contest. The winner and finalists will be announced by June, 2013.

  • Simultaneous submissions will be considered but writers should withdraw their entry immediately upon its acceptance elsewhere. Entry fee is non-refundable.
  • Multiple submissions are welcome but each short story should be accompanied by a separate $15 entry free.
  • Entries will be given a blind reading – submitted manuscripts should therefore be free of the writer’s name and other identifying information.
  • Submissions by family members and former students of the contest judge are ineligible.
  • Stand-alone excerpts from longer works of fiction will be considered.
  • Entries are accepted through Submittable, our online submission management system or by mail. We regret that we cannot accept entries made via email.
  • Mailed entries must be accompanied by a check for $15 payable to ARDOR Literary Magazine and your cover letter should include complete contact information (an email address, phone number and mailing address). Your manuscript should be free of identifying information and the title of your entry should be clearly indicated on your submission and in your cover letter.
  • If you are submitting by mail and would like confirmation of receipt of your manuscript please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard. An announcement of the contest winner and finalists will be made on our blog in June 2013.
  • Entries must be double-spaced in black ink and must be typed in 12-point Times New Roman (or similar) font.
  • Online submissions must be submitted by 11:59pm EST on March 31st. Mailed submissions must be postmarked on or before March 31st.

Guest Judge:  Chris Offutt

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We're thrilled that veteran story writer Chris Offutt will serve as guest judge for our inaugural short story contest. Chris has published three collections of short stories (Kentucky Straight in 1992, Out of the Woods in 1999 and Luck in 2011), two memoirs (The Same River Twice in 1993 and No Heroes in 2002), a novel (The Good Brother, 1997) in addition to recent success writing for the screen. Chris' work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, he has been awarded a Gugenheim Foundation Fellowship for Fiction (1996), a Whiting Writers' Award (1996), a Lennan Fellowship for Fiction (2003) and was a Writers Guild of America Nominee for best writing for the HBO series True Blood (2008). He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of English & Screenwriting at the University of Mississippi.
Submissions made by post should be accompanied by a check for the $15 entry fee made payable to ARDOR Literary Magazine and must be sent to:

ARDOR Literary Magazine
PO Box 271
Gray, ME 04039

or

submit online via Submittable, our online
submission manager by clicking the link below: