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Editors' preferred formatting

Simple formatting is best for our submission system: there is no need for headers, footers, hard line breaks, page breaks, or other fancy formatting. (And including images is definitely problematic.) If you can easily double-space the text and use a 12 point font, in black, it will be helpful. Don't worry if you've forgotten a time or two; you won't blind us and we will still read the work! We do like to have at least your email address on the top of the first page of your story. Full contact info is fine, but not essential. (It's the story that counts!)

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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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