Issue #28

Some excerpts from Issue 28:

Often when dialogue doesn’t work, it’s because people are using dialogue as a vehicle to get something across, instead of putting people in a room together and watching what happens.—Thisbe Nissen

Research can help direct impulse, but usually it enriches and deepens your levels of information.—Maria Flook, interviewed by Sarah Anne Johnson

I love the idea that particles are divided into electrons, protons, and neutrons, which are made up of quarks, then upquarks, downquarks, neutrinos, then, finally, strings. Everything in and around us is vibrating. —Elizabeth Cox, interviewed by Sarah Anne Johnson

Stories let us say things that we might otherwise censor, hide even from ourselves.—Vikram Chandra, interviewed by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais

For me it’s always been a question of writing the kind of stories I want to read, and it seems so simple.—Roy Parvin

You write and you write and you write for a long time because you’re learning how to do it, because there’s pleasure in doing it. People need to work harder at writing and work a little less hard at publishing.—Ann Patchett, interviewed by Sarah Anne Johnson

Every story we publish is unsolicited, and 86% of the stories we accepted last year came to us directly from the writer.
That's exactly how we like it.

One of the most respected short-story journals in print, Glimmer Train Stories 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.