Guidelines for the Very Short Fiction Award category:
We are interested in reading your original, unpublished very short stories!
- We don't publish stories for children, I'm sorry.
- It's fine to submit more than one story or to submit the same story to different categories.
- When we accept a story for publication, we are purchasing first-publication rights. (After we've published it, you can include it in your own collection.)
To make a submission: Please send your work via our new online submission procedure. It's easy, will save you postage and paper, and is much easier on the environment. Just click the yellow Submissions button above to get started!
Dates:
The category will be open to submissions for one full month, from the first day through
midnight (Pacific time) of the last day of the month. Results will be posted at www.glimmertrain.org.
- January. Results will be posted on March 31.
- July. Results will be posted on September 30.
Reading fee:
- $15 per story.
Prizes:
- 1st place wins $1,200, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of that issue.
- 2nd-place: $500
- 3rd-place:$300
Other considerations:
- Open to all writers.
- Stories not to exceed 3,000 words.(Any shorter lengths are welcome.)
We look forward to reading your work!
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