<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Perhaps of interest--<br><br>Sent from my iPad2, hence the typos</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Glimmer Train <<a href="mailto:noreply@mail.glimmertrainpress.com">noreply@mail.glimmertrainpress.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> November 17, 2011 1:50:18 AM PST<br><b>To:</b> <<a href="mailto:robin.russin@ucr.edu">robin.russin@ucr.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>November 30 deadline</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <<a href="mailto:noreply@mail.glimmertrainpress.com">noreply@mail.glimmertrainpress.com</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<b>SHORT STORY AWARD for NEW WRITERS</b> <a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=8440995&N=409&L=251&F=H" target="_blank"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_small-a.png" alt="Follow
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<p><b>Deadline: November 30, 2011</b></p>
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Glimmer Train always welcomes the work of new writers: In a year's time we
pay writers over $45,000, nearly a third of that going to emerging voices.
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<b>Prizes:</b>
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1st place wins $1,200, publication in <i>Glimmer Train Stories</i>, and 20
copies.<br>
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2nd-place: $500 and possible publication.<br>
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3rd-place: $300 and possible publication.<br>
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Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print
publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Entries, of course, must not
have appeared in any print publication.)
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Word count: Most submissions run 1,500 to 6,000 words, but can go up to
12,000.
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Reading fee is $15 per story.
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Results post on January 31. Winning story will be published in Issue 86.
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<font size="3" face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>We look forward to reading
your work!</b><br>
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<p>One of the most respected short-story journals in print, <i>Glimmer
Train Stories</i> is represented in recent editions of the Pushcart Pr<img src="http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/glimmertrain/spacer.jpg" width="1" height="1">ize, <i>New Stories from the Midwest</i>, O. Henry, <i>New
Stories from the South</i>, <i>Best of the West</i>, and <i>Best American
Short Stories</i> anthologies.</p>
<p>In a recent <i>Best American Short Stories</i>, of the top "100
distinguished short stories," six appeared in <i>Glimmer Train
Stories</i>, second only to the <i>New Yorker</i>. We are pleased to say
that, of those six, two were those authors' first stories accepted for
publication.</p>
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