SEPTEMBER, 2016 BULLETIN #116

Upcoming deadline:

New Writer Award: 1st place $2,500, and publication. Deadline: 10/31. (The Fiction Open and Very Short grace periods end on 9/10.)

Henry in 1946, after the war.

Open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000.

The 1st-place winner will be published in Glimmer Train and will receive 10 copies of that issue. Second-and 3rd-place win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. Winners and finalists will be announced in the January bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week.

Most submissions run 1,500 - 6,000 words, but stories as long as 12,000 words are fine. (Previous online publication is okay.)
Writing Guidelines

My wife said something that was so wonderful. Toward the end of all this, when I finally did find the right way to write the story and I was very happy, I said, "Jessica, I'm just a quirky writer. I'm always going to write quirky books, and I guess that's just the way it's going to be." And she said, "Well, Mark, our quirks are all we have to offer."—Mark Salzman, The Man in the Empty Boat

Essays in this bulletin:

Erin Rose Belair: For me, "Rare Items" started as a whisper, clear as day, as if someone sitting right next to me in class had said it: It was the same summer I started calling my mother by her first name. (more)

Karen Malley: Twenty feet away, in the grass, were gathered several young men and their dogs. There is something new this trip: angry, often drunken young men sitting on the ground, against walls, accompanied by big contented looking dogs on leashes. (more)

Lisa Graley: The bonsai itself seems an apt metaphor for the ways stories flourish and the ways we nurture them, sometimes scaling back, urging growth one way, limiting it another. (more)

Results of the May/June New Writer Award

Winners have been contacted, as have the Top 25 and Honorable Mentions. (A note about who wins.) All three winners' stories will be published in Glimmer Train.

• 1st place goes to Erin Rose Belair for "Rare Items from the Universe."
  This is her first published fiction.
• 2nd place goes to Julia Phillips for "Nadia."
• 3rd place goes to Angela So for "The Water in Our Hearts Has Fallen."
  This will be her first print publication.

Our thanks to all of you for letting us read your work!

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