• Deadlines and results:
  The Very Short Fiction
  category closes July 31.
• Lynn Ahrens:
  The Music of Words
• Randolph Thomas: Making Stories Out of Stories
• Josh Henkin: Risking Failure

• The Very Short Fiction competition closes July 31. First place wins $1,200 and publication in Issue 77 of Glimmer Train Stories. Second- and third-place winners receive $500/$300 (or, if chosen for publication, $700).

• Winners and finalists of the April Family Matters competition have been notified, and the Top-25 list is posted! Our thanks to all of you for letting us read your stories!
        1st place: "According to Foxfire" by Randolph Thomas
        2nd place: "Chim Chiminy" by Amy S. Gottfried
        3rd place: "A Month of Rain" by C. Abe Gaustad

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Looking forward,

Co-editors and sisters