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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> Glimmer Train [mailto:noreply@mail.glimmertrainpress.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 01, 2012 2:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> reader<br>
<b>Subject:</b> New Writer contest opens today. Bulletin 67 follows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Howland sisters dancing on a picnic table, sharing an ice cream cone, c. 1938 (<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10047895&amp;N=484&amp;L=441&amp;F=H" target="_blank">more</a>)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The <a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10047895&amp;N=484&amp;L=10&amp;F=H" target="_blank">
Short Story Award for New Writers</a> (<span style="color:#990000">1st place wins $1,500</span> and publication!) closes August 31. See
<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10047895&amp;N=484&amp;L=391&amp;F=H" target="_blank">
Writing Guidelines</a>. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared (nor is scheduled to appear) in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The <a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10047895&amp;N=484&amp;L=440&amp;F=H" target="_blank">
slush pile</a>? When you submit your stories to Glimmer Train&#8230; <a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10047895&amp;N=484&amp;L=434&amp;F=H" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10047895&amp;N=484&amp;L=435&amp;F=H" target="_blank">Johanna Skibsrud</a>: It was not that the world of the imagination was the world I most identified with, but it was the world through
 which it made the most sense to me to explore and share my experience of <i>this</i> one. (<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10047895&amp;N=484&amp;L=435&amp;F=H" target="_blank">more</a>)
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 world, wondering, <i>where am I, when am I, who am I</i>? The writer has an obligation to quickly and efficiently orient. (<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10047895&amp;N=484&amp;L=436&amp;F=H" target="_blank">more</a>)
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 and seeing how it all works. Good writers intuitively know this. They certainly don't need me getting in the way. (<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10047895&amp;N=484&amp;L=437&amp;F=H" target="_blank">more</a>)
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<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">2nd place: Tom Dibblee for &quot;Stuck in a Sixth Floor Penthouse&quot;
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Every story published in <i>Glimmer Train</i> is unsolicited. Of the stories accepted last year, 86% came directly from the author.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">One of the most respected short-story journals in print,
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