A notice from Glimmer Train.

• New Writer Award: First place wins $1,500 and publication in Issue 96.
• This category is open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation of more than 5,000. (Seven of the last eight first place New Writer winners have been those authors’ first print publications.)
• Second- and third-place winners receive $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. Winners and finalists will be announced in the February 1 bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week.
• Most submissions run 1,500–6,000 words, but can be as long as 12,000. The reading fee is $15 per story. Please, no more than three submissions per category.
• Writing Guidelines
• The October Very Short Fiction grace period ends on November 7.

Frank and Clarissa (Fields) Davies, 1938