Glimmer Train was[1] an American short story literary journal.

[2] The journal held 12 short story fiction contests a year, paying out over $50,000 on an annual basis.

[3] Glimmer Train was founded in 1990[4] by Linda Swanson-Davies and her sister, Susan Burmeister-Brown, in Portland, Oregon.

[5] While the journal received over 40,000 submissions per year, only about 40 stories are published (a rate of 0.001, or 1/10 of 1%).

Burmeister-Brown advises writers to: "Unplug yourself from the hurly-burly of life on a regular basis so your subconscious has time to make some good compost.