GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

FALL 1997

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Daniel Villasenor for "Wendell's Singing"

2nd-place winner:

Callie Wright for "Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wood"

3rd-place winner:

Paula Yoo for "Closer to Home"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

David Adler for "Lucy Lou & The Lanes"
Ian Catmur for "The Odds of Getting Lucky"
Kathy Leonard Czepiel for "Buffalo"
Teri Kanefield for "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Lynne Kassabian for "Baseball"
Paul G. Krol for "The Light that Failed"
Jill Lavik for "Chili Peppers"
Jane La Motte for "The Trip of a Lifetime"
Clarissa Mansfield for "Garden of Cobwebs"
Katherine Millersdaughter for "The Ancient Gourd"
Marian Palaia for "The Last House in East Missoula"
Gary Eldon Peter for "Oranges"
Willa Rabinovitch for "Steal Away"
Gwendolyn Wooten Scott for "Evening's Anger"
Patty Seyburn for "Out of Order"
Bill Smoot for "Walking the Tracks"
James Spencer for "The Robbers of Karnataka"
Rob Trucks for "Mornings"
Sarah Venart for "Squall"
Daniel Villasenor for "Behind Every Brow an Unknown Sorrow"
Eric Wasserman for "Salvaging"
Colby Willis for "Good Sport"