Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers :: 2015
Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their May Short Story Award for New Writers. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation greater than 5000. The next Short Story Award competition will take place in August. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.
1st place goes to Lauren Green [pictured] of New York, NY. She wins $1500 for “When We Hear Yellow” and her story will be published in Issue 97 of Glimmer Train Stories. This will be her first publication.
2nd place goes to Emory Harkins of Brooklyn, NY. He wins $500 for “We’re Talking to Ourselves.”
3rd place goes to Ellen Graham of Seattle, WA. She wins $300 for “Livingston.”
A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.
Deadline today for the Very Short Fiction Award: July 31. This competition is held quarterly, and 1st place wins $1500, publication in the journal, and 20 copies of that issue. It’s open to all writers, with no theme restrictions, and the word count must not exceed 3000. Click here for complete guidelines.
