April 8, 2008

Dear Glimmer Train Readers and Writers,

In this issue:

• Deadlines and results:
  Family Matters closes April 30.
• Carmiel Banasky: The Physicality of Words
• Lynn Capehart's essay: Race-Neutral Writing
• Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Pay it Forward: Another Perspective on Rejection
• List of latest pieces accepted for publication
  in Glimmer Train Stories.

• The April Family Matters competition closes April 30th. We're looking for original, unpublished stories on family, word count range: 500 - 12,000. First-place wins $1,200 and publication in Issue 72 of Glimmer Train Stories. Second- and third-place winners win $500/$300 (or, if chosen for publication, $700).

• The standard story category is now open for submissions.

• Winners of the January Family Matters competition 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: "Save" by Carmiel Banasky
        2nd place: "Not the King of Prussia" by Paul Michel
        3rd place: "Dermagraphia" by Elizabeth Kadetsky

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

Juan Martinez's "Well Tended"
Patrick Hicks's "57 Gatwick"
Elizabeth Koch's "Would You and Other Relevant Questions"
Clark Knowles's "Boxville, East Boxville"
Nancy Reisman's "Ear to the Door"
Louis Gallo's "S.O.S."

Looking forward,

Co-editors and sisters

If this email was forwarded to you, you can sign up to get Glimmer Train's free bulletins (sample) and calls for manuscripts yourself. Please note that we never share your contact information.

Don't want to get our bulletins and reminders? UNSUBSCRIBE here. Questions? Go to our FAQs, or email us at eds@glimmertrain.org.