GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

FEBRUARY 2012

Honorable Mentions, listed in alphabetical order:

Humera Afridi for "What Happened to Us"
Chris Allsop for "To Feed It, To Bury It"
Zakhar Berlin for "Insolence"
Eileen Bordy for "Things Heard and Not Seen"
Sarah Calhoun for "Sarajevo"
Lucas Cardona for "Something Nice for My Sister"
Aaron Clarkson for "Accidental Travel"
Paula Closson Buck for "The Intervention"
Abigail Corfman for "Jack in the Corner"
Angele Divan for "Cigarettes & Peppermints"
Sara Freeman for "Fishmonger"
Amanda Ghest for "Love, Rocky"
Malikah Goss for "Baring, MT"
Muna Gurung for "City Girls"
Devin Hahn for "Format"
Kristin Hanratty for "Dollar Store"
Amanda Hartzell for "Fix-Me-Up"
Vedran Husic for "Translated from the Bosnian"
Kathleen Jercich for "Ursa Minor"
Adam Johnson for "Drag"
Patricia Ketola for "Amsterdam 2001"
Gwen Kirby for "The Number 11"
Christina Kovac for "Negotiations"
Steve Lautermilch for "Lake"
Jing-Jing Lee for "Putzfrau"
David Liu for "Summer Rose and Monk"
Jana Llewellyn for "Igloo"
Eva Lomski for "When the Dirt Starts Moving"
Kim Magowan for "What Shall We Do Now That the Museums Are Closed and Paris Is Blue?"
Daniel Pena for "How to Flee a Drug War"
Virginia Pye for "Lost in Saigon"
Jessica Roth for "Rock and Snow and Sky"
Jessica Ruddock for "asdf jkl;"
Todd Sassaman for "Levitating Aunt Gladys"
Erik and Layla Schubert for "Drowning in the Horse Latitudes"
Cristina Sciarra for "Red and Blue Makes Purple"
Matthew Shaer for "The River Room"
Sarah Shaffer for "The Rust Red Feather"
Garrett Stack for "Peace, Brothers"
Johanna van Zanten for "Without a Home"
Cyn Vargas for "On the Way"
Sandra Westin for "Hypnos"
James Wheeler for "Russell Street"
Katrina Wijayaratne for "Life, Love, and Necessity"
Natalie Wood for "Lake Mead"
Michelle Wotowiec for "Notes on Taking Up Space"
Brenden Wysocki for "Adaptive Reuse"
James Yu for "The Prince"
Thomas Zalutko for "Bad Habit"
Shuo Zhuang for "The String of the Heart"