Current fiction student Francisco González was named a Glimmer Train finalist for his short story, Increments of Dust. He was also a finalist for Beloit Fiction Journal's 2019 Hamlin Garland Award for his short story Panda Express.
Glimmer Train, a triannual journal, “continues to actively champion emerging writers.” Forty percent of all the stories presented in the last year were authors' first stories accepted for print publication. Glimmer Train tries to set the bar for treating writers with respect. The magazine is represented in recent editions of the 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.
The Beloit Fiction Journal publishes the best in contemporary short fiction. Traditional and experimental narratives find a home in the journal's pages. The journal publishes new writers alongside established writers. The fiction-only format allows the magazine to consider long as well as short stories. Work first appearing in BFJ has been reprinted in award-winning collections, including the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, the Flannery O’Connor and the Milkweed Fiction Prize collections and has received the Iowa Short Fiction award.