We two sisters started Glimmer Train, a non-commercial literary operation, in 1990 and still put personal funds into the company every year. We're the only ones here—no employees, no interns. We read all online submissions ourselves. Our rate of pay for stories is one of the highest among literary publications: $700 for standard submissions; $1200 for first-place New Writer, Very Short, and Family Matters competition winners; $2,000 for first-place Fiction Open; and there are no reading fees for our standard story category, which is open January, April, July, and October. To all of you who let us read your work and who subscribe to Writers Ask and Glimmer Train Stories, a million thanks for helping keep this literary journal alive!