OCTOBER, 2019—FINAL MAILING
Applegate, Oregon, post-WWII, 1946 |
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Reading people's stories for almost three decades—some 700,000 stories—has been a tremendous honor. We know how much goes into writing, especially tackling those stories that are deeply significant to the writer, and we thank you for sharing them with us. We've actively championed new writers from the start, and in this, our final issue, over 1/3 of the stories are their authors' first publications! This is one long bulletin! To see Free Resources for Writers, and which libraries have complete archive sets of Glimmer Train, please keep reading! |
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Essays in this issue: |
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R. Cross: The thing about people, and thus characters, is that there's so much more than meets the eye. That's what stories do that paintings don't: depict the complexities that come when conscious beings move through time and space with or against one another. (more) |
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Alexandra Chang: "How wonderful that you've become an author," a family friend told me earlier this year. My agents had recently sold my first novel and story collection, and I was in the process (still am) of seeing myself as an author of books. (more) |
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Perri Klass: I am deeply and profoundly aware that the stories people tell me, the human drama they allow me to witness, that's all happening because I'm a doctor and I'm there to help. That's why they are willing to answer even difficult questions, that's why… (more) |
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Bret Anthony Johnston: If we let all of this madness, all of this sadness, keep us from participating in the co-creation of stories—as readers, as writers, as both—then we are inviting erasure, surrendering our history and our future, ceding the holy act of witness… (more) |
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In our last (and gigantic—400-page!) issue of Glimmer Train Stories, #106, you’ll find the final nineteen stories. Our shared humanity is reflected in every one. |
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The authors:
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In our final issue of Writers Ask, #85, you’ll hear from dozens of accomplished writers and teachers on these topics: You’ll also read essays by Siamak Vossoughi and Karen Brown. If diving deep into the art and craft of fiction writing appeals to you, Writers Ask is a gem.
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Other info: |
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Every issue of both Glimmer Train and Writers Ask is preserved at the Library of Congress, and the following libraries have archived complete sets of Glimmer Train Stories: |
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Boston Public Library British Library Brown University Columbia University Cornell University Harvard University Johns Hopkins Mills College Multnomah County Library New York Public Library Princeton University San Francisco Public Library Seattle Public Library Smith College |
Stanford University Syracuse University Trinity College in Dublin Tulane University University of Alberta University of California in Berkeley University of California in Irvine University of Iowa University of Michigan in Ann Arbor University of North Carolina in Charlotte University of Pennsylvania University of Texas in Austin University of Virginia in Charlottesville Yale University |
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Our thanks to all the writers, readers, and artists without whom Glimmer Train would never have flourished. |
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Signing off with fond regards and best wishes, |
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