FICTION OPEN guidelines

Open to all subjects, all themes, and all writers.

Most entries run from 2,000 to 8,000 words, but stories from 2,000 to 20,000 words are fine.

Held quarterly: Open to submissions in MARCH, JUNE, SEPTEMBER, and DECEMBER.

  Next deadline: June 30*

Winners and finalists will be officially announced in the June 1, September 1, December 1, and March 1 bulletins, respectively, and will be contacted directly one week earlier.

Reading fee: $19 per story. Please no more than three submissions per contest.

Prizes:

  • 1st place wins $2,500, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of that issue.
  • 2nd place wins $1,000 (and 10 copies, if accepted for publication).
  • 3rd place wins $600 (or, if accepted for publication, $700 and 10 copies).

Please make your submissions at Glimmer Train's online submission site. We look forward to reading your work!

* There is always a one-week grace period.

 



Glimmer Train has been discovering, publishing, and paying emerging writers since 1990.

One of the most respected short-story journals in print, Glimmer Train is represented in recent editions of the Pushcart Prize,
New Stories from the Midwest, O.Henry, New Stories from the South, Best of the West, and Best American Short Stories anthologies.

Every story published in Glimmer Train is unsolicited.
And every year, we pay out over $50,000 to fiction writers.

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