MAY, 2017—BULLETIN #124
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Upcoming deadline: |
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New Writer Award: 1st place $2,500 and publication. Deadline: 6/30. (The Fiction Open and Very Short grace periods end on 5/10.) |
Dorothy Howland Burmeister in Bellmore NY, 1947 |
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Open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Previous online publication is fine.) |
The 1st-place winner will be published in Glimmer Train and will receive $2,500 and 10 copies of that issue. Second- and 3rd-place win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. Winners and finalists will be announced in the September 1 bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week. |
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Most submissions run 1,000 - 5,000 words, but stories as long as 12,000 words are fine. Writing Guidelines |
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Once you start writing, you start listening really carefully, looking at everything around you really carefully, and the world opens up in wonderful ways because you're paying so much attention to everything you're exposed to.—Lee Smith |
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Essays in this bulletin: |
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Courtney Knowlton: I hear a lot of stories—good, juicy ones, full of drama and conflict and pain and fear—from people I love and don't want to upset. But then I show up at my computer and they all pour out and mix together. (more) |
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Katherine Vaz: I encountered two students whose names I no longer recall but whose work struck me so profoundly that I mention them to this day in every workshop I teach. (more) |
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Stefani Nellen: The first impulse for this is probably sentimental. I long to reconnect with my former self, the days of youthful exploration that seem so much more interesting in retrospect, especially now I'm free to apply fictional manipulation. (more) |
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Andrew Roe: Instead, when I'm working on a book or short story, I'll ask myself a few simple questions before I go to bed at the end of the day: Did it get better? Am I farther along than I was yesterday? (more) |
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Results of the January/February New Writer Award Winners have been contacted, as have the Top 25 and Honorable Mentions. We will publish all three winning stories, which will be their authors' first fiction in print!
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Our thanks to all of you for letting us read your work! |
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Best 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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