GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

MAY 2009

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Noa Jones for "Brother Ron"

2nd-place winner:

Farley Urmston for "Pretending"

3rd-place winner:

Benjamin Janse for "The Great Storm"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay for "What There Is, When There Is Nothing"
Holly Dale Bern for "Little Mamma"
Aja DeKleva Cohen for "Coffee in Tel Aviv"
Stefani Farris for "Grown Children"
Lydia Fitzpatrick for "Ellijay"
Cecily Garber for "Anin and Me"
Helen Hooper for "Aerostar"
Julie Innis for "The Bee King"
Ryan Ireland for "Season of Fire, Season of Ash"
Tae-Yeoun Keum for "E Is the first letter"
Aeron Kopriva for "It Snows on the Lion"
Shari Lane for "Jaysus, Moo Moo and Paul"
Kevin Leahy for "The Barber's Place"
Forest Lewis for "Zhaagnaash"
Paul Rogov for "The Legend of Birdman"
Kate Rutledge Jaffe for "Bone, Space, Bone"
Anna Smith for "Eastern Bloc"
Laura Steele for "Water on the Brain"
Wendy Taylor for "Could Not Be Pictured"
Michael Trudeau for "Resignation"
Casey Wiley for "That Something We Needed"
Amy Wilson for "Bend"