Guidelines for the SHORT STORY AWARD for NEW WRITERS category:
We are interested in reading your original, unpublished stories!
- We don't publish stories for children, I'm sorry.
- Multiple submissions are fine. You can send more than one submission per competition, if you like, or submit the same story for different categories, if it qualifies.
- When we accept a story for publication, we are purchasing first-publication rights. (Once we've published your story, you are free to, for instance, include it in your own collection.)
To make a submission: Please send your work via our new online submission procedure.
It's easy, will save you postage and paper, and is much easier on the environment.
Just click the yellow Submissions button above to get started!
Dates:
The category will be open to submissions for one full month, from the first day through
midnight (Pacific time) of the last day of the month. Results will be posted at www.glimmertrain.org.
- May. Results will be posted on July 31.
- November. Results will be posted on January 31.
Reading fee:
Prizes:
- 1st place wins $1,200, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of that issue.
- 2nd-place: $500
- 3rd-place:$300
Other considerations:
- Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared in any publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Entries, of course, must be unpublished.)
- Stories not to exceed 12,000 words.(No minimum, though it's rare for a piece under 500 words to read as a full story.)
I suspect that more than a few editors fail to read beyond the first paragraph of stories sent them by unknown writers. Not so with the editors of Glimmer Train--they seek out new voices in fiction and provide them with valuable exposure. Shortly after my work appeared in Glimmer Train, a collection of my short stories was accepted for publication.
--George Makana Clark
|
