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Glimmer Train's Summer Very Short Fiction Award

It's time for Glimmer Train's Summer contest -- and this time around it's very short fiction.

Generally I find the fewer words, that harder things are to write. But that's part of what makes very short fiction so interesting.

The details from their announcement:

Competition: Glimmer Train's Summer Very Short Fiction Award.

Eligibility: Open to all themes, all subjects, all writers, published and unpublished. Your original, unpublished story must not exceed 2,000 words.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 our site, log in, and click on VERY SHORT STORY AWARD. Reading fee (payable by visa or mc) is $10 per story.

Entries will be accepted through July 31st. Winners will be called by November 1st. 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 June 08, 2005
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Julie Long on Froggy radio

Friday, June 10th at 9:30 you can catch me talking about fishing on the four Froggy radio stations in Western PA, Ohio and West Virginia (94.9, 98.3, 103.5 and 104.3). My story "The Worm" is included in Chicken Soup for the Fisherman's Soul. The book is a recent title from the #1 NY Times bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series and is being promoted as a terrific Fathers' Day gift.

Posted by Julie on June 07, 2005
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