October 4, 2007

Dear Glimmer Train Readers and Writers,

In this issue:
Blanche and George Howland, c.1939
  • News on shorter submission periods and shorter response times in most categories. The Family Matters competition is now open!

  • Jennifer Anne Moses, author of the just-out Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou, on writing, rejection, and the Talmud.

  • Josh Henkin, author of ABA Book Sense pick, Matrimony, with his Letter to an MFA.

  • List of latest pieces accepted for publication in Glimmer Train Stories.

  • And some nice news: The 2007 Best American Short Stories is coming out in a few days, and, of the top “100 distinguished short stories of 2006,” ten appeared in Glimmer Train, more than any other publication in the country, including the New Yorker. Congratulations to those ten writers!

  • Fiction Open winner, Armand ML Inezian, on his path to publication.

Upcoming deadlines, results, changes:

  • First, our new submission periods: As of October 1, 2007, rather than a competition being open to submissions for a couple of months (and it taking us up to five months to complete the reading and judging), we’ll be snugging things up so that no category will be open for more than one month, and our response times will be shortened so your stories won’t be tied up for more than three months from the end of a submission period.
  • The Family Matters competition opened on October 1 and closes October 31. Results will post January 31. The standard category is also open for the month of October!
  • Winners of our summer Fiction Open competition have been contacted and the
    Top-25 list is posted. What great stories!
          1st place: "See Me" by Armand ML Inezian
          2nd place: "Preacher Stories" by Josh Canipe
          3rd place: "Aftermath" by Scott Nadelson
  • We’re in the final stages of judging the Very Short Fiction competition now—results will post at www.glimmertrain.org on November 1.

We've recently accepted these stories for publication in Glimmer Train Stories (note):

“You Say Tomato” by Xhenet Aliu
“Four Sisters” by David Koon
“Pronouncing the Apostrophe” by Johnny Townsend
“Tamer of Horses” by Pamela Sutton
“Rubber Boy” by David Cates
“Marijuana, Lipton Tea, and Jazz” by Scott Schrader
“Preservation” by Sean Padraic McCarthy
“Vandalism” by Lisa Graley
“Noodles” by Kuangyan Huang

We’ve been reading the most wonderful stories, in all categories. Thanks to those of you who let us read your work!

Looking forward,

Co-editors and sisters

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