MARCH, 2019—BULLETIN #146

NOTE: The Very Short and Fiction Open grace periods end March 10.

Moving to Oregon when Henry returned from the war after two years overseas. November 1945.

OPEN NOW:
Our final New Writer and Family Matters contests
Deadline: April 30

NEW WRITER

1st place | $2,500

2nd place | $500*

3rd place | $300*

400-12,000 words

$18 reading fee

Guidelines

FAMILY MATTERS

1st place | $2,500

2nd place | $500*

3rd place | $300*

400-12,000 words

$18 reading fee

Guidelines

*Or, if accepted for publication, $700.
(1st place stories will be published in our final issue and every story is read and considered for publication.)

Winners and finalists will be announced in the July 1 bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week.

Since 1991, we two sisters have had the honor of reading stories that their authors held dear. We've always made it a priority to give new writers a real shot at publication, and to invite family-focused stories which are inevitably complex and reveal so much about character and how we find our way in the world. We are eager to immerse ourselves in your stories, then to prepare those that are accepted for publication in our farewell issue—probably our biggest ever—this fall!

Essays in this bulletin:

Marian Palaia: And so, regardless of how his work would be received today, what I learned from Mr. Hannah is this: do go for broke, balls to wall, take risks, be brave, shoot the antennas off of submarines and arrows into front doors if you have to. (more)

Devin Murphy: In fiction, you work until something roils up from the silent, broiling hot center of your inner life, or you fake it until that happens. The more you try, the easier it becomes to write out the deepest roots of your heart. (more)

Siamak Vossoughi: I wanted to see what else people were, besides their political beliefs. I wanted to find what people of different beliefs had in common. Simply put, it was this: living is hard for everybody. That is still my starting point. (more)

Results of the November/December Family Matters Contest

Winners have been contacted, as have the Top 25 and Honorable Mentions.

• 1st place goes to Marian Palaia for "Wild Things."
• 2nd place goes to Peter Parsons for "Elvis, Alive and Limping."
• 3rd place goes to Emily Lackey for "Trust Me."

Our thanks to all of you for letting us read your work!

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Best regards,

Discovering, publishing, and paying emerging writers since 1990.

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.