SEPTEMBER, 2018—BULLETIN #140
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Our father and his sister, newly arrived in Sheepshead Bay from Hamburg, 1927 |
Our New Writer Award opens today! 1st place wins $2,500 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories! Deadline: 10/31. (The grace period for the Fiction Open and Very Short contests ends September 10.) |
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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.) |
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Winners and finalists will be announced in the January bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week. |
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Most submissions run 500 - 4,000 words, but stories as long as 12,000 words are fine. |
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The 1st-place winner of the New Writer Award 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. |
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Last year, 2/3 of our New Writer Award winning stories have been their authors' first fiction in print! |
Essays in this bulletin: |
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Victoria Alejandra Garayalde: I took my own experience with my childish hope that place could transform me into someone else and gave it to my character La Nena. Like me, La Nena is a young girl who desperately wants to belong—to anywhere and anyone but to herself. (more) |
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Valerie Trueblood: My interest is in how people respond when things happen to them that they're not prepared for—accidents, being in the right or wrong place, moments when the current of one life goes heavily across the current of another. (more) |
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Nellie Hermann: This is part of why the fun of writing and reading never goes away, because you can just never get to the bottom of it. But at a certain level, when it comes to life and to experience (more) |
Results of the the May/June Short Story Award for New Writers Winners have been contacted, as have the Top 25 and Honorable Mentions. (A note about who wins.)
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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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