Glimmer Train Short Story Competition

Upcoming deadline:
• Short Story Award for New Writers.
  1st Place: $1,500 and publication in Issue 93. Deadline: February 28.
  
• Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation over 5,000.
• Most submissions run 1,500 to 6,000 words, but can be up to 12,000 words. Writing Guidelines.
• Winners and finalists will be announced in the May bulletin, and contacted directly by April 27th. 2nd/3rd place winners will receive $500/$300, respectively, or, if chosen for publication, $700.
• We've all been there: a moment when something of such import happens that the space life allows for it seems too small.—Josh Weil