An on-line yearly publication. Each issue is thematically organised, with a strong comparative literature element. Cutting edge scholarship in the main issues has its counterpart in an Archive of classic articles. It offers a comprehensive and regularly updated Bibliography section. Glimmer Train Press Quarterly short story print magazine.
Every issue includes six illustrated short stories and two interviews with writers and artists.
The stories are not published online, only highlights of what was published in print. The interesting Internet service provided in this site is the Writer's Ask section where every few weeks they publish questions answered by some of their favorite published writers and creative writing professors. A web-specific version of the monthly print magazine. Annual monetary prizes for fiction and poetry. Ploughshares Published three times a year.