Very Short Fiction Award

VERY SHORT FICTION guidelines

Open to all writers, this category welcomes stories
that have not appeared in any print publication.

Maximum length: 3,000 words.

Held just twice a year: Open to submissions in JANUARY and JULY.

Next deadline: July 31.*

January and July winners and finalists will be officially announced in the April 1 and October 1 bulletins, respectively, and will be contacted directly one week earlier.

Reading fee: $15 per story. Please no more than three submissions per contest.

Prizes:

1st place wins $1,500, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of that issue.
2nd place wins $500 (or, if accepted for publication, $700 and 10 copies).
3rd place wins $300 (or, if accepted for publication, $700 and 10 copies).

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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