JUNE, 2018—BULLETIN #137
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Dorothy (Howland) Burmeister, 66 Eimer Avenue, Brooklyn, 1946 (more) |
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We're at the mid-point of the New Writer Award, 1st place $2,500 and publication in Glimmer Train. Deadline: 6/30. |
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Open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Previous online publication is fine.) |
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The 1st-place winner will be published in Glimmer Train and will receive $2,500 and 10 copies of that issue. Second- and 3rd-place win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. |
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Winners and finalists will be announced in the September bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week. |
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Most submissions run 800 - 4,000 words, but stories as long as 12,000 words are fine. |
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Essays in this bulletin: |
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Jon Chopan: One of my greatest struggles, as a writer, as a human being, is to find purpose in the things I do. This, it seems, is the job of a good creative writing teacher, to help their students in their quest to find purpose. (more) |
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Jennifer Egan: I think it really eased my father's mind because as a working class kid and a cop's son in Chicago, he was seriously worried that I was suffering a delusion. I mean this idea of being a writer… (more) |
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Andrew Porter: If you start thinking too much about what the story is about or what you want to happen in the story too early in the process, then you limit what the story can be. I like to be surprised when I'm writing a story. (more) |
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Best regards, |
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Discovering, publishing, and paying emerging writers since 1990. |
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One of the most respected short-story journals in print, Glimmer Train continues to actively champion emerging writers. The magazine is represented in recent editions of the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, New Stories from the Midwest, the O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the South, Best of the West, New Stories from the Southwest, Best American Short Stories, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. |
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