We're at the mid-point of the Fiction Open and the Very Short Fiction Award contests, prizes totaling $7,400   Deadline: 4/30/16

VERY SHORT  

1st place | $2,000  

2nd place | $500*  

3rd place | $300*  

300-3,000 words  

$16 reading fee  

Writing Guidelines  

  FICTION OPEN

  1st place | $3,000

  2nd place | $1,000

  3rd place | $600*

  3,000-20,000 words

  $21 reading fee

  Writing Guidelines



*Or, if accepted for publication, $700.
(All 1st place stories will be published.)

Winners and finalists will be announced in the July 1 bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week. First-place winners will be published in Glimmer Train. (All stories are considered for publication.)

Both categories are open to all. (Last year 42% of all winning stories were their authors' 1st publications!)

Essays in this bulletin:
Javier Marías: I still hadn't decided if someone was going to die or not, and, if so, who. Of course, once a book is finished, it seems impossible that the story would be different from the way it finally was. (read more)
Roxana Robinson: I come to know their backgrounds, what sort of lives they came from, who their parents were, where they went to school, and so I come to know how they will react to things. I come to feel sympathy for them, and compassion. (read more)
Myla Goldberg: The subject grabbed me by the neck and I had to follow it. I had finished Bee Season and it wasn't out yet. It was that in-between year when you're done but you're just waiting. (read more)

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Best regards,

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is represented in recent editions of the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, New Stories from the Midwest, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the South, Best American Mystery Stories, Best of the West, New Stories from the Southwest, and Best American Short Stories.

Every story published in Glimmer Train is unsolicited.

And every year, we pay out over $50,000 to fiction writers.

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