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Glimmer Train Short Story Awards for New Writers

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Submitted by noid on Fri, 2007-03-02 16:28.
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Guidelines for the SHORT STORY AWARD for NEW WRITERS category:

We are interested in reading your original, unpublished stories! (We don’t publish stories for children, I’m sorry.) Multiple submissions are fine. (You can send more than one submission per competition, if you like, or submit the same story for different categories, if it qualifies). No simultaneous submissions, though, please. When we accept a story for publication, we are purchasing first-publication rights. (Once we’ve published your story, you are free to, for instance, include it in your own collection.)

Note: In an effort to save our backs from heavy mail buckets, we ask that you send your work via our new online submission procedure. It’s easy, and will save you postage and paper. Just click the yellow “SUBMISSIONS” button above to get started!

Dates:

  • Spring: February 1 – March 31. Results will be posted at www.glimmertrain.org on July 1.
  • Fall: August 1 – September 30. Results will be posted at www.glimmertrain.org on January 2.

    Reading fee: $15 per story.

    Prizes: 1st place wins $1,200, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of that issue. 2nd/ 3rd-place: $500/$300, respectively.

    Other considerations:

  • Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared in any publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Entries must be entirely unpublished.)
  • Stories not to exceed 12,000 words.

    I suspect that more than a few editors fail to read beyond the first paragraph of stories sent them by unknown writers. Not so with the editors of Glimmer Train—they seek out new voices in fiction and provide them with valuable exposure. Shortly after my work appeared in Glimmer Train, a collection of my short stories was accepted for publication. —George Makana Clark

     

    http://www.glimmertrain.com/shorawfornew2.html 


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