Glimmer Train Bulletin Archives
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• Bulletin 16, as emailed.
• Cynthia Gregory, first place winner of the February Very Short Fiction competition, on The Importance of Journaling.
• Lee Martin on Texture in a Novel.
• Brian Ames on Crossing the Blank Page Fearlessly.
• Sara Whyatt's Silenced Voices article about Tibetan scholar, Dolma Kyab.

• Bulletin 15, as emailed.
• Carmiel Banasky, first place winner of the January Family Matters competition, on The Physicality of Words.
• Lynn Capehart on Race-Neutral Writing.
• Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Pay it Forward writes on Another Perspective on Rejection.

• Bulletin 14, as emailed.
• Aria Beth Sloss, first place winner of our November Short Story Award for New Writers competition, on moving beyond emotional minutiae.
• Stephanie Dickinson, first place winner of our December Fiction Open competition, on getting published.

• Bulletin 13, as emailed.
• Erica Johnson Debeljak, first place winner of the October Family Matters competition, on getting past safety.
• Excerpts from Writers Ask (#39).

Bulletin 12

• Bulletin 12, as emailed.
• E.A. Durden, first place winner of our last Fall Short Story Award for New Writers competition, on Writing as Theft.
• Peter Selgin on discipline & bliss.
• Cheri Johnson discusses in search of a literary agent.

Bulletin 11

• Bulletin 11, as emailed.
• Award-winning author Roy Parvin on place.

Bulletin 10

• Bulletin 10, as emailed.
• Melanie Rae Thon, first place winner in our Summer 07 Very Short Fiction competition.
• Kim Brooks discusses her story "The Shelter".
• Sara Whyatt’s article about Nawal El Saadawi, the renowned Egyptian feminist writer.
• Excerpts from Writers Ask (#38) about beginnings.

Bulletin 9

• Bulletin 9, as emailed.
• Armand ML Inezian, first place winner in our Summer 07 Fiction Open competition.
• Jennifer Anne Moses, on writing, rejection, and the Talmud.
• Josh Henkin, with his Letter to an MFA.
• Congratulations to the ten Glimmer Train authors who made the "100 distinguished short stories of 2006" list in the 2007 Best American Short Stories.

Bulletin 8

• Bulletin 8, as emailed.
• Laura Valeri, first place winner in our April 07 Family Matters competition.
• Pulitzer-Prize winner Richard Russo talks about his first acceptance.
• Sara Whyatt’s article about Hrant Dink who was murdered for “insulting” Turkey.
• Siobhan Dowd, committed writer and advocate for writers, died on August 21st.
• Snippets from Writers Ask (#37) giving two sides of the write-what-you-know issue.

Bulletin 7

• Bulletin 7, as emailed.
• Notes by your writing desk, from a previous survey.
• Ron Savage talks about trusting his own vision.

Bulletin 6

• Bulletin 6, as emailed.
• E.B. Johnson, first place winner in our Spring 07 Short Story Award for New Writers competition.
• Sunshine O’Donnell talks about her new novel, Open Me.

Bulletin 5

• Bulletin 5, as emailed.

Bulletin 4

• Bulletin 4, as emailed.

Bulletin 3

• Bulletin 3, as emailed.

Bulletin 2

• Bulletin 2, as emailed.

Bulletin 1

• Bulletin 1, as emailed.