March 5, 2008

Dear Glimmer Train Readers and Writers,

In this issue:

• Deadlines and results:
  Fiction Open closes March 31.
• Aria Beth Sloss on moving beyond emotional minutiae.
• Stephanie Dickinson on getting published.
• Note from the editors about email addresses and password reminders.

• The current Fiction Open competition closes March 31. (Note: This is a category that allows more space, but in no way requires it. We truly welcome stories of any length for the Fiction Open as long as they don't exceed 20,000 words. The high word cap is just meant to relieve you of that constraint.)

• As we said in the February Bulletin, we are pleased to be able to shorten response times down to just two months from the close of each one-month long competition. To make that leap forward, we've got two results to report this month:

Winners of the December Fiction Open 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: "A Hole in the Soup" by Stephanie Dickinson
      2nd place: "Would You and Other Relevant Questions" by Elizabeth Koch
      3rd place: "Boxville, East Boxville" by Clark Knowles

The November Short Story Award for New Writers winners have also been notified and that Top-25 list is posted!

      1st place: "Toward a Theory of Blindness" by Aria Beth Sloss
      2nd place: "A Shell of Blue Luminosity" by Andrew Thomas Scott
      3rd place: "Augustine's Mountains" by Devin Murphy

On email addresses and password reminders:

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Forget your login info? Go here and click on the Need a Password Reminder? link, just below the red login button. (Look down at the bottom of this email to see what email address you used when you signed up.) If these two things don’t save the day, contact us (see below) and we’ll be glad to help!

Looking forward,

Co-editors and sisters

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