How many submissions does glimmer train get

Visit www. I was just describing what my experience has been like to another writer I've been encouraging…explaining that you are honest, and a force for good, and that sets a tone that comes through in everything, and produces all its own evidence, as all good work being done out of love does, and that's what makes Glimmer Train different. It's the two of you, it's personal, and it matters.

There is no warmer home for writers than what you two have built. Susan Burmeister-Brown and Linda B. Swanson-Davies are the sisters who started Glimmer Train in with the simple goal of publishing the kind of fiction they like to read -- and with a healthy circulation of 16,, their tastes are clearly shared by many.

Open to all subjects, all themes, and all writers! Most entries run from 2, to 6, words, but we invite stories from 2, to 20, words.

The Fiction Open is held twice a year and is open to submissions in June and December with the following deadlines:. June 30 January 2. NOTE: All contest deadlines have a one-week grace period. Winners will be contacted directly the week before the public announcement in our bulletins, which will be on these dates:.

Submissions are still being accepted to finish out with issue , but after that, sisters Linda Swanson-Davies pictured left and Susan Burmeister-Brown pictured right — or as we call them, The Glimmer Train Sisters — plan to retire the publication entirely.

While they have received many offers and inquiries to let others take over the renowned journal, The Sisters had already decided against this option. When the time came for the parents to move on from this business, they sold it to new owners who did not follow the same business ethics and turned the business inside out.

So much for the reputation the family had meticulously and genuinely built up over the years. I can understand why Susan and Linda are opting to shut down instead of handing it over. I have known Glimmer Train nearly my whole reading life. Over the decades, Glimmer Train became ubiquitous. And this speaks to the business sense of The Sisters. I liken it to Starbucks, which started out as three students living in Seattle who wanted to sell decent coffee.

Everybody loved them, and they grew, and everybody loved them more, and they grew some more, and so on, until they got so big that people started to hate them, blame them for ruining small town businesses, and for becoming a behemoth corporate machine.

After 29 years, Glimmer Train has pulled out of the station. We closed to submissions at midnight on May 15, , and ceased operations on December 15, Every submission in every category has always been read by us, and we never stopped reading for a competition just because we'd found a good story.

Stories were published in a handsome print publication where great fiction continues to enjoy a physical existence that will persist. Online publication is a great avenue for writers, too, but we've always believed that an exceptional story deserves a long life and a place in the Library of Congress.