DECEMBER, 2016—BULLETIN #119
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Upcoming deadline: |
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We're at the mid-point of the annual Family Matters contest, 1st place: $2,500 and publication in Glimmer Train. Deadline: 1/2/17 |
It's not too late to give a meaningful gift to the readers and writers in your life.
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We welcome stories about families of all configurations! |
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The 1st-place winner will be published in Glimmer Train and will receive 10 copies of that issue. Second- and 3rd-place winners win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. Winners and finalists will be announced in the March bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week. |
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Most submissions run 1,000-6,000 words, but stories as long as 12,000 words are fine. Writing Guidelines |
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Human change, human development, is mysterious and we are often compelled to explain it, even if only to ourselves, with stories, by describing a series of events. Without these stories, we are lost and alone and confused. The stories, even if they shift and change with time, give us the little clarity we need each day. They explain the day the heart opened, the day the heart closed. They explain how we became who we are, how we became aware of something ugly in ourselves or the world, or beautiful. How we lost faith. How we found it. And how, exactly, to the moment, to the second, we finally—albeit briefly—understood.—David Allan Cates |
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Essays in this bulletin: |
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Silas Dent Zobal: I need to tell you a few of my family's privations, which were abundant and shitty. And, through this, I must also talk about the ways I behaved. Which often wasn't very well. And which makes me uncomfortable. (more) |
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Valerie Laken: There is something very reassuring about houses. Really the two things that define a house, any house, are that it is meant to endure and meant to protect an intimate group of people. (more) |
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William Luvaas: "How I Died" on a near-fatal car crash my wife and I had on the New York State Thruway one icy night—except in the story I die, as I haven't yet done in real life. Quite exhilarating. (more) |
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Antonya Nelson: You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads. (more) |
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Josh Weil: Unfortunately, life doesn't let time expand to hold these things the way they warrant. Luckily, writing does. I call it breathing room. And I think it's one of the most underappreciated (even at times derided) ideas a creative writer can employ. (more) |
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Our thanks to all of you for letting us read your work! |
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Warm regards, |
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Discovering, publishing, and paying emerging writers since 1990. |
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One of the most respected short-story journals in print, Glimmer Train continues to actively champion emerging writers. The magazine is represented in recent editions of the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, New Stories from the Midwest, the O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the South, Best of the West, New Stories from the Southwest, Best American Short Stories, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. |
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