[CW-Grad] Fwd: November 30 deadline

robin russin robin.russin at ucr.edu
Thu Nov 17 08:30:37 PST 2011


Perhaps of interest--

Sent from my iPad2, hence the typos

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> From: Glimmer Train <noreply at mail.glimmertrainpress.com>
> Date: November 17, 2011 1:50:18 AM PST
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> Subject: November 30 deadline
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>  	 SHORT STORY AWARD for NEW WRITERS    
> Deadline: November 30, 2011
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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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> Prizes:
> 	 1st place wins $1,200, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies.
> 	 2nd-place: $500 and possible publication.
> 	 3rd-place: $300 and possible publication.
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> Other considerations:
> 	 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.)
> 	 Word count: Most submissions run 1,500 to 6,000 words, but can go up to 12,000.
> 	 Reading fee is $15 per story.
> 	 Results post on January 31. Winning story will be published in Issue 86.
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> We look forward to reading your work!
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> One of the most respected short-story journals in print, Glimmer Train Stories is represented in recent editions of the Pushcart Prize, New Stories from the Midwest, O. Henry, New Stories from the South, Best of the West, and Best American Short Stories anthologies.
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> In a recent Best American Short Stories, of the top "100 distinguished short stories," six appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, second only to the New Yorker. We are pleased to say that, of those six, two were those authors' first stories accepted for publication.
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