Upcoming deadlines, results, changes:

• The November Short Story Award for New Writers closes November 30, results on February 28. (The fall New Writers results will be posted January 2, as planned.)
• The October Family Matters competition is now closed; results will be posted by January 31. (The stories are looking great!)
• Winners of the summer Very Short Fiction Award have been notified, and the
  Top-25 list is posted! (And remember you can always check status of your online submissions by logging in and clicking on My Submissions.)
        1st place: "Saviors" by Melanie Rae Thon
        2nd place: "Which Leaves Me" by Lindsey Crittenden
        3rd place: "Radar Key" by Zoe Lambert
  

Glimmer Train Stories, winter issue, #65 is out! Here’s what you’ll find inside:

Kim Brooks's "The Shelter"
Scott Alan Anderson's "Saints Alive"
K.L. Cook's "The Man Who Fell from the Sky"
Sari Rose's "As in Life"
Jennifer Moses's "Child of God"
Rolaine Hochstein's "Don't Tell the Cuzzins"
Sara Whyatt’s article "Silenced Voices: Nawal El Saadawi"
Patricia Foster's "Best Place on Earth"
Caryl Phillips Interview by Kevin Rabalais
Thisbe Nissen's "And the Night Goes Off Like a Gun in a Car"
Anasuya Krishnaswamy's "Notre Bien Aimee"
Garth Risk Hallberg's "Jubilee"
Steve Almond Interview by Aaron Gilbreath

And here’s a taste of the new Writers Ask:

Mary Yukari Waters, interviewed by Sherry Ellis: Each story develops in a different way. Sometimes I’ll just start with a feeling. Once I was talking with a poet, and I told her that one of my stories had started with a complex emotion that I had a real need to capture on paper. And then I created an entire story building up to more

Q & A with the editors:

You have a 12,000 upper word limit for the Short Story Award for New Writers, but my story is only 3100 words. Does it have a chance?

We are open to a range of word counts for the various categories. We went back through all the winning stories in each category and here are the spreads we found:

Short Story Award for New Writers: 1642 – 9426
Very Short Fiction Award: 546 – 2995
Fiction Open: 2208 – 24776
Family Matters (we’ve only had one so far): 5122

Your 3100 word story is just dandy for any category except the very short.

It is—unbelievably!—November. We hope you’ll think of Glimmer Train Stories and Writers Ask when you choose meaningful gifts for your literary friends. (note)

Looking forward,

Co-editors and sisters

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