To my relief, LONTAR has proven to be not just a flash-in-the-pan, here-today-gone-tomorrow venture, as, sadly, so many new magazines and literary journals find themselves to be. Issue #1 was launched in October 2013 at BooksActually in Singapore, to much excitement and merriment; I have to deeply thank the following people for stepping in and pinch-reading for the contributors who could not make it to the launch—Patricia Mulles, Alvin Pang, Wei Fen Lee, JY Yang and Adan Jimenez—and to Ang Si Min for being the only author in attendance. Some quick housekeeping: in the editorial for issue #1, I mentioned that LONTAR was a quarterly literary journal. As is evident in the span of time from the release of that issue to this, the journal's schedule is unfortunately not so frequent. And although my original ambitions were to make this a quarterly periodical, the practicalities of the situation took priority, and so after much discussion, it was decided that LONTAR would be released on a biannual basis instead, one issue in the Spring and one in the Autumn.
