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Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers

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Competition: Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers

Eligibility: Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared in any publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Entries must be entirely unpublished.) Open to all themes, all subjects. Stories should not exceed 12,000 words.

First-place winner receives $1,200, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of the issue in which it is published. Second- and third-place winners receive $500/$300, respectively, and acknowledgement in that issue.

To submit your story, go to www.glimmertrainpress.com , log in, and click on SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS. Reading fee (payable by visa or mc) is $12 per story.

Entries will be accepted through September 30th. Winners will be called by January 2nd. Top 25 list will be emailed to all participants by that date. Please let your email provider (ISP) know that you want emails from glimmertrainpress.com and glimmertrain.com so we can reach you.

Posted by Cindy on August 18, 2004
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