May 6, 2008

Dear Glimmer Train Readers and Writers,

In this issue:

Upcoming deadlines and results:
  • The May Short Story Award for New Writers competition closes May 31. We're looking for original, unpublished stories by writers whose fiction has not been printed in a publication with a circulation over 5,000. Word count range: 500 - 12,000. First-place wins $1,200 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories Issue 72. Second- and third-place winners win $500/$300 (or, if chosen for publication, $700).
  • Winners of the February Very Short Fiction 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: "Melting at Both Ends" by Cynthia Gregory
          2nd place: "Ghost Pain" by Michael Schiavone
          3rd place: "Home for Good" by Linda Stansberry
    •

Glimmer Train Stories, summer issue, #67 is out! Here’s what you’ll find inside:

Laura Valeri's "Furniture"
E.B. Johnson's "Killer Heart"
Carol Bly's "Therapist"
Louis Gallo's "Aliens"
Michael Parker Interview by Andrew Scott
Paul Carroll's "Blood Rush"
Patricia Henley's "Rocky Gap"
Colleen Curran's "The Dearborns Aren't Home"
Javier Marías Interview by Eli S. Evans
Kurt Rheinheimer's "Concussions"
Sara Whyatt's article, Silenced Voices: Dolma Kyab

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

I don't think about structure and form when I write. I don't think... more

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Looking forward,

Co-editors and sisters

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