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Glimmer Train Stories

Publisher’s Description: Glimmer Train Stories is edited by two sisters in Portland, Oregon, and is entering its third decade of publication. It is not affiliated with any university or foundation. Payment rates range from $700 to $2500 and is paid upon acceptance. Submissions should be made online at www.glimmertrain.org.

Each issue presents ten short stories by new and established writers. Recent authors include Benjamin Percy, Lauren Groff, Nic Brown, Anna North, Charles Baxter, Abby Geni, Matthew Vollmer, Stephanie Freele, and Thisbe Nissen. There is also an in-depth interview with a writer, and recent interviewees include Karen Russell, Yiyun Li, Bret Anthony Johnston, and Matt Bondurant. Cathal Sheerin, of PEN's International Writers-in-Prison Committee, has a regular column which brings attention to detained writers around the world.

In the recent Best American Short Stories, of the top "100 distinguished short stories," six appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, second only to the New Yorker. Of those six, two were those authors' first stories accepted for publication. Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers is offered in the months of February, May, August, and November, and is open to any writer whose fiction has not appeared in a nationally distributed publication with a circulation greater than 5000.

Recent issues:

#83 Stories by Joanna Arnow (winner of Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers), Joseph Johns, Askold Melnyczuk, Melissa Yancy, Graham Arnold, Natalie Teal McAllister, Anna North, Linda Legters, Abby Geni, Dana Kroos, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Matt Lapata. Interview with Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine. Sara Whyatt’s article on silenced writers focuses this time on Tal al-Mallouhi, a 19-year-old Syrian blogger.

#82 Stories by Clayton Luz (winner of Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers), Stefanie Freele, Christopher Bundy, Lee Montgomery (winner of Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open), Lindsay Sproul, James F. Sidel, Peter Ho Davies, Lauren Groff, Joan Wickersham, and Micah Nathan. Interview with Katherine Min, author of Secondhand World. Cathal Sheerin’s article on silenced writers focuses this time on Russian journalist Mikhail Beketov.

#81 Stories by Paul Rawlins, Lydia Fitzpatrick (winner of Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open), J. Kevin Shushtari, Robert Schirmer, Joy Wood, Sean Padraic McCarthy, Nick Yribar, Kathryne Young (winner of Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers), and Dennis Bock. Interview with short-story writer Laura van den Berg (author of “What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us”). Cathal Sheerin’s article on detained writers focuses this time on Belarus journalist Irina Khalip.