GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

SPRING 2006

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Louise Farmer Smith for "The Apartment on Riverside Drive"

2nd-place winner:

James Sepsey for "Not When a Day Can Be This Good"

3rd-place winner:

Rachel Yoder for "I Want to Forgive Everyone, Trousers"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Beth Alvarado for "Can You Hear Me?"
Robin Antalek for "How Did a Girl Like You Get To Be a Girl Like Me?"
Dayna Brayshaw for "The Surf Wife"
Ann Claycomb for "In Search of a Smaller Bar Scene"
Martha Crites for "See the Blind Woman Dance"
Sloan Davis for "Statues of the New World"
Donna Dunlap for "Hurricane"
Yuko Frost for "Cartwheel"
Mark Fullmer for "The Rachmaninoff Vocalise"
Aaron Gilbreath for "South of Flag"
Mathew Goldberg for "Bat Mitzvah"
Matthew Goodman for "Hold Love Strong"
David Haynes for "The Light of the Day"
Vladimir Kleyman for "The Traveler"
Gary Margolias for "String of Days"
Thaila Ramanujam for "Water, Water"
Michael Schiavone for "Green"
Mariflo Stephens for "Drug Store"
Angela Sweet for "Fall Swim"
Arturo Urrutia for "Lies"
Deanette Vasicek-McCauley for "Living History"
Deborah Vlock for "Dialogue"