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Glimmer Train Stories

July 18, 2017 by Every Writer

    Glimmer Train Stories

    Website:

    www.glimmertrain.org

     Glimmer Train

    Information about your publication:

    One of the best literary journals in the country, Glimmer Train was founded in 1990 by editors Linda Swanson-Daveis and Susan Burmeister-Brown. These sister editors have built a literary magazines of outstanding stories from the best writers in the country. The magazine has been selected by the Pushcart Prize, The PEN and O’Henry Awards and have had stories selected for inclusion in Best American Short Stories and many other national anthologies.

    Glimmer Train gives a good part of it’s prize winnings to new and emerging writings, so if you are a new writer looking to prove yourself, there isn’t really any better place to do it than in their writing contests. Not only will you win a nice cash prize, you will also quickly establish yourself.

    In 2013 we had the honor of interviewing Susan Burmeister-Brown, and she was kind enough to give us some insights into her publishing philosophies. You can read her interview here.

    EWR highly recommends this magazine. Buy a subscription and enter their contests. Support them!

    Submissions

    We particularly welcome the work of new and emerging writers. 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. We are pleased to say that, of those six, two were those authors’ first stories accepted for publication.

    Contest

    Our Short Story Award for New Writers is held quarterly in the months of February, May, August, and November. It is open to any writer whose fiction has not appeared in a publication with a circulation greater than 5000. Glimmer Train holds 12 short story contests, and they give away over $50,000 in prizes per year.

    Information

    Editor: Susan Burmeister-Brown
    Print Magazine? Yes
    Circulation: 10,000
    Submission Guidelines:
    Approximate Response Time 6-12 weeks
    Publishes: quarterly
    Year Founded: 1990
    Online Submissions? Yes

    Contact

    Mailing Address: 4763 SW Maplewood Road PO Box 80430 Portland, OR? 97280
    Email: susan@glimmertrain.org
    Twitter: @glimmertrain
    Facebook:

    Filed Under: Best American Short Story, Contests, Fiction Magazines, literary magazine, Literary magazine in Print, Literary magazines that Pay, New and Interesting, Online Submissions, Print magazines taking online submissions

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    Comments

    1. Amy Slaney says

      May 11, 2013 at 12:42 pm

      I am an aspiring writer and would like to know if you pay authors that put submissions into your magazine. If you do how much do you pay?
      Will you please contact me at amy_slaney@hotmail.com?

      Yours Truly,
      Amy Slaney

    2. Mike says

      July 4, 2013 at 7:43 am

      Amy,

      If u look at glimmer train’s website under guidelines, it tells you everything you need to know. They do pay, and rather well too. Good luck.

    3. Denize says

      January 10, 2022 at 12:59 pm

      Sadly, this publication no longer exists.

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