OCTOBER, 2018—BULLETIN #141

Upcoming deadline:

We're at the mid-point of the New Writer Award, 1st place $2,500 and publication in Glimmer Train. Deadline: 10/31.

Lotte & Tante Lina on their way to Denmark, 1934 (more)

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.)

Winners and finalists will be announced in the January bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week.

Most submissions run 500 - 4,000 words, but stories as long as 12,000 words are fine.
Writing Guidelines

The 1st-place winner of the New Writer Award will be published in Glimmer Train, receive $2,500, and 10 copies of that issue. Second- and 3rd-place win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700.

Please note: This will be our last New Writer contest of the year. The next—and final one—will be held in March/April 2019.

Essays in this bulletin:

May-lee Chai: For American authors writing about a multicultural, globalized world, the issue of translation is unavoidable: what to put into English, what to leave in a mother tongue, and how to render the mixed-English that often is used in immigrant families. (more)

William Luvaas: For years, the novel was dominant, with its loud, broad-shouldered personality. Novel was so self-assured—something of a bully, really—while Story scurried about, mouse-like under the furniture, speaking in a whisper, fearing Novel would step on it. Then something unexpected happened. (more)

Tobias Wolff: So when I would read a great story of Ray Carver's, like "Errand" or "Cathedral," my thought would be, "I want to write this well." Not write like him, because I knew I couldn't. That was his world, his voice, all that. (more)

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Best regards,

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