Literary magazine Glimmer Train is now accepting short story submissions for their New Writer Award. Full details below, submissions close on October 31.

Open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. he 1st-place winner will be published in Glimmer Train and will receive 10 copies of that issue. Second-and 3rd-place win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. Winners and finalists will be announced in the January bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week. Most submissions run 1,500 – 6,000 words, but stories as long as 12,000 words are fine. (Previous online publication is okay.)

Find full writing guidelines and submit here.