February 1, 2009

In this issue:

Upcoming deadlines and results:
  • The Very Short Fiction competition closes February 28. Maximum word count: 3,000. First-place wins $1,200 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories Issue 75. Second- and third-place winners win $500/$300 (or, if chosen for publication, $700).
  • Winners and finalists of the November Short Story Award for New Writers 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: "Monkeys of the Sea" by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
          2nd place: "The Net of Blue Angels" by Stephen M. McCabe
          3rd place: "Enough" by Marco Fernando Navarro
Glimmer Train Stories, spring issue, #70 is out! Here's what you'll find inside:

Lauren Groff's "Delicate Edible Birds"
Ed Allen's "Krankenhaus"
Joshua Canipe's "Preacher Stories"
David Allan Cates's "Rubber Boy"
Scott Nadelson's "Aftermath"
Erica Johnson Debeljak's "Blind Spots"
Stephanie Dickinson's "A Hole in the Soup"
Miriam Novogrodsky's "Just Enough Food to Remember"
Aria Beth Sloss's "Toward a Theory of Blindness"
Andrew Scott's interview with Will Allison
Sara Whyatt's article, Silenced Voices: Yaghoub Yadali
And here's a taste of the new Writers Ask:
It used to be forty-to-one. I mean I'm thinking of a story that I sent out for seven or eight years called "The Darkness Together." I knew it was a good story… more

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Looking forward,

Co-editors and sisters