GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

MAY 2008

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

John Walker for "Among the Least of These"

2nd-place winner:

Matthew Mercier for "Valentine Ave"

3rd-place winner:

Lisa Abramowicz for "Comings and Goings"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Jennifer Blackman for "The Losses are Many"
Ben Bliss for "The Opposite Wall"
Jacquelyn Brooks for "Samaritans"
Kathy Conde for "Hanging Houses"
Yaron Glazer for "Fall from Grace"
Laura Hawley for "Falling Out"
Paul Mitchell Hendricks for "Opelika"
Natalie Howard for "Rain on 14th Street"
Joshua Howes for "Two Girls"
Kathleen Johnson for "Drinking God"
Nora Khan for "Black"
Angelina Lenahan for "Forgiving"
Julia Pierpont for "Elliot Says"
Sharon Polli for "Frank Kowalski's Trees"
Bill Purcell for "Pain Shot"
Laura Ramos for "Halo-Halo (Mix-Mix)"
Marguerite Sheffer for "Dragons"
Lucy Simpson for "The Nightie Curtain"
Sandra Stringer for "A Biography of Mothers"
Paul Vidich for "Home Theater"
Adam Wilson for "Things I Had"
Jesse Wright for "The Mustard Seed Manual"