This just in! Glimmer Train has awarded Honorable Mention to a short story of mine: “We Are Only Human” has placed in the magazine’s Nov/Dec 2018 Family Matters contest. Take a look!

Glimmer Train is an American literary magazine run by sisters Susan and Linda and receives 40,000 submissions a year. The magazine has been in operation since 1990 and is known for championing emerging writers. Fiction they have selected and published is included in Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, New Stories from the Midwest, the O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the South, Best of the West, New Stories from the Southwest, Best American Short Stories, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading.

Here’s the kicker: Glimmer Train announced last year that the magazine is closing, after nearly 30 years of operation. So it’s very special to be noticed by the magazine as it nears its final issue.

“We Are Only Human” is one of the stories contained in a short story collection that I am nearly done with. I workshopped the story recently at the Tin House Summer Workshop, with Randa Jarrar.