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Aspirations for Artists
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Welcome to the world of Ascent Aspirations, the world of the imagination, and inspiration, a safe place to send our artistic souls and to share the objects of our creativity. The Ascent Aspirations home page is an extension of Ascent Aspirations Publishing which is an independent press. It is also home to Ascent Aspirations Magazine,
a combination of an Online Literary Journal published quarterly and a print magazine/anthology published semi-annually.
The home web site is designed by David Fraser writer, editor, publisher, educator, consultant, and
explorer of an eclectic variety of other stuff. Connected with Ascent Aspirations is Patricia Carroll - visual artist in paint and
fibre, educator, consultant.
Since 1997 Ascent Aspirations has grown from a small electronic magazine
that publishes literary, science fiction, fantasy, horror and dark mainstream
short fiction and poetry, essays and visual art into a major presence on the web
and is now becoming a print magazine for two issues a year. Mission Statement Ascent Aspirations Publishing has a mission to publish aspiring writers of poetry
and short fiction in the form of independent collections and anthologies. We are interested in promoting writers through posting
book titles and web page links. We want to help create a connected web of writers and writer groups that helps to promote poetry
and short fiction and other written forms locally and globally. Our contests for our two, yearly print magazine/anthologies are designed with private funding from
the magazine to provide for the prizes, guaranteeing the contest. The revenues earned from the
competitions will always be applied to the following years budget to offer future print issues with prize money and contributors copies Our policy as a new venture for issues Vol.1 No. 1 and Vol.2 No. 1 The Premier Print Edition 2005 and the Windfire Edition 2006 will provide a copy
of the anthology to all contributors. Anyone wishing to purchase current or archived print copies of the magazine can do so through the main page links either with PayPal or the cheque and mail method.
Contact us with your comments, and send us contributions to Ascent Aspirations Magazine
(published four times a year electronically and twice a year in print starting in 2005). |