MARCH, 2017—BULLETIN #122

NOTE: The New Writer grace period ends March 10.

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Now open: Two contests, $7,400 in prizes.
Deadline: April 30

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.
(1st place stories are always 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. (Over the past four years, 48% of all winning stories have been their authors' first print publications.)

Essays in this bulletin:

Doug Crandell: Haslett doesn't allow the reader to fall back on a diagnostic label, and instead creates in Franklin a complex and maddening man determined to remind the world of his genius. Franklin calmly states that the psychiatric establishment has redefined eccentricity as illness. (more)

David Ebenbach: And then there's the kind of revision where you write a story that is basically on target, but you don't get every bit of what you were after, so you write a second on-target story, and maybe others beyond that, and you keep all of them. (more)

Kimberly Bunker: Lately, though, I've been thinking about the importance of just getting an idea down on paper. If I have a potential story in mind, even if I'm not sure I can execute it, I need to just start, and finish, a first draft. (more)

Results of the November/December Family Matters Contest

Winners have been contacted, as have the Top 25 and Honorable Mentions. This was a tremendous batch of stories, thank you! (All three winning stories will be published.)

• 1st place goes to Doug Crandell for "Manhood in the Veal Barns of the Hoosier Tundra."
• 2nd place goes to Matthew Lansburgh for "Enormous in the Moonlight."
• 3rd place goes to Katherine Hubbard for "Hamlet."

Our thanks to all of you for letting us read your family stories—we enjoyed them very much!

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Best regards,

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