January 10, 2008

Dear Glimmer Train Readers and Writers,

In this issue:

• Upcoming deadlines and results.
  The January Family Matters competition
  closes on January 31.
• Peter Selgin: On Discipline & Bliss.
• E.A. Durden: On Writing as Theft.
• Cheri Johnson: Reject Me, Please.

• The January Family Matters competition closes January 31.

• Standard story submissions are also welcome through January.

• We will wrap up the October Family Matters competition by the end of this month, results will post here.

• Winners of our last Fall Short Story Award for New Writers have been notified, and the Top-25 list is posted! (And you can always check status of your online submissions by logging in and clicking on My Submissions.)
        1st place: "Mr. Dabydeen" by E.A. Durden
        2nd place: "Korean Wedding" by Hubert Ahn
        3rd place: "57 Gatwick" by Patrick Hicks

Thank you all for your kind comments about our shorter turnarounds and our decision to allow simultaneous submissions; those were big decisions for us. It keeps us moving at quite a pace, but it’s exciting!

Looking forward,

Co-editors and sisters

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