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Glimmer Train Press Fiction Open
Fiction Open

We are interested in reading your original, unpublished stories! Open to all writers, all themes, all lengths, so have at it! (We don’t publish stories for children and we don’t publish works longer than 20,000 words, I’m sorry.) We do consider unpublished novel excerpts if they feel like complete stories. Multiple submissions are fine. (You can send more than one submission per competition, if you like, or submit the same story for different categories, if it qualifies). No simultaneous submissions, please. When we accept a story for publication, we are purchasing first-publication rights. (Once we’ve published your story, you are free to, for instance, include it in your own collection.)

Note: In an effort to save our backs from heavy mail buckets, we ask that you send your work via our new online submission procedure. It’s easy, and will save you postage and paper.

Dates:
May 1 – July 15. (Results will be posted at GlimmerTrain.org on October 15.)
November 1 – January 15. (Results will be posted at GlimmerTrain.org on April 10.)

Reading fee: $20 per story.

Prizes: 1st place wins $2,000, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, 20 copies of that issue, and a one-year subscription. 2nd/ 3rd-place: $1,000/$600, respectively.


Other considerations:

Open to all writers, all themes, all story lengths! (We figure that more than 20,000 words, though, is really more novella than story.)
No novels, please.

We look forward to reading your work!

The Following Text Is Quoted:

I write to discover what I know.—Flannery O’Connor