SEPTEMBER, 2017—BULLETIN #128

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.)

Carl William Rozycki
Brooklyn, 1948

Open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Previous online publication is fine.)

The 1st-place winner will be published in Glimmer Train and will receive $2,500 and 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 1,000 - 5,000 words, but stories as long as 12,000 words are fine. Writing Guidelines

Essays in this bulletin:

Dan Murphy: Grief is something we circle, there's no landing place or finite center, just a very long plane ride above it, and most of the ride, if you have come to an agreement with grief, you are calm. (more)

David Ebenbach: The short story suggests that any single moment or detail, in some sense, contains everything: the characters; their problems and promise; the significance of the events; human nature, more generally; the past, the present, and the future. (more)

Devin Murphy: Steinbeck's sense of self is so closely tied to his work that it feels he was skirting closer to emotional collapse the whole time and I read these journals like a psychosocial thriller. (more)

Results of the May/June New Writer Award

Winners have been contacted, as have the Top 25 and Honorable Mentions.

• 1st place goes to Dan Murphy for "In Miniature." This will be his first published fiction!
• 2nd place goes to David Ye for "Blue Water."
• 3rd place goes to Jen Wellington for "Red Stick."

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

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Best regards,

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