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STANDARD guidelines

Open to all writers.

Stories not to exceed 12,000 words.(No minimum, though it's rare for a piece under 500 words to read as a full story.)

Held three times a year: Open to submissions in JANUARY, MAY, SEPTEMBER.

spacer   Next deadline: May 31.*

  • January. Results by April 30.
  • May. Results by August 31.
  • September. Results by December 31.

Reading fee: $0 per story. Please no more than three submissions per submission month.

Payment for accepted stories:

  • $700, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 10 copies of that issue.

Please make your submissions at Glimmer Train's online submission site. We look forward to reading your work!

* There is always a one-week grace period.

 



Glimmer Train has been discovering and publishing emerging writers since 1990.

One of the most respected short-story journals in print, Glimmer Train is represented in recent editions of the Pushcart Prize,
New Stories from the Midwest, O.Henry, New Stories from the South, Best of the West, and Best American Short Stories anthologies.

Every story published in Glimmer Train is unsolicited.
And every year, we pay out over $50,000 to fiction writers.

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