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Glimmer Train Stories

1211 NW Glisan St., #207

Portland, OR 97209

Phone: (503) 221-0836

E-mail: eds <at> glimmertrain <dot> org

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes, (see website) Reading period: varies by category (see website) Response time: 6-12 weeks Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website)

ISSN: 1055-7520 Founded: 1990 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: IPD, Ubiquity Average pages: 250 Sample copy (postpaid): $12

Copy Price: $12 Subscription (Individuals & Libraries): $36

Publisher’s Description: Glimmer Train Stories is edited by two sisters in Portland, Oregon, and is entering its 19th year of publication. It is not affiliated with any university or foundation. Payment rates range from $700 to $2000. 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, Ann Beattie, Charles Baxter, William Trevor, and Thisbe Nissen. There is also an in-depth interview with a writer, and recent interviewees include Daniel Mason, Yiyun Li, Javier Marias, Mary Gaitskill, Ha Jin, and Antonya Nelson. Sara Whyatt, of PEN's International Writers-in-Prison Committee, has a regular column which brings attention to detained writers around the world.

In the recent edition of “Best American Short Stories,” Glimmer Train is listed 10 times in the 100 distinguished stories for the year, more than any other publication, including the New Yorker. Three of those 10 were the authors’ first published stories.

Recent issues:

#74 contains stories by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (winner of our Short Story Award for New Writers), Michael Schiavone, Eric Scott Tryon, Clark E. Knowles, Elizabeth Koch, Michael Poore, Paul Michel, Juan Martinez, Karen Outen, and Maggie Shipstead. Interview with Hong Kong novelist and essayist Xu Xi. Sara Whyatt’s article on detained writers focuses this time on Kenyan poet Philo Ikonya.

#73 features stories by Nellie Hermann, K.L. Cook, Stefanie Freele, Nancy Reisman, Matthew Mercier, Louis Gallo, Michael Schiavone, Dana Kinstler, and Abby Geni (winner of our Short Story Award for New Writers). Sara Whyatt’s article on detained writers focuses this time on Cuban writer Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso.

#72 features stories by John S. Walker (winner of our Short Story Award for New Writers for "Among the Least of These"), Shimon Tanaka (winner of our Fiction Open for “The Suit”), Michael L. Guerra, Patrick Hicks, Kim Brooks, Rikki Clark, Sean Padraic McCarthy, Lisa Graley, Andrew Thomas Scott, Terrence Cheng. Interview with novelist Barry Unsworth. Sara Whyatt’s article on silenced voices focuses on Italian writer Roberto Saviano.