GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

FEBRUARY 2013

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Robert Powers for "Maghreb and the Sea"

2nd-place winner:

Christopher Lukas for "Fifty-nine Approaches to the Novel"

3rd-place winner:

Val Emmich for "Remember with Me"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Arielle Bernstein for "Rapture and Distortion"
Jerome Blanco for "Jessa"
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry for "Boys on the Moskva River"
Shoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia for "Drowning"
David Harris for "Two Schools of Thought"
Jeannine (Jay) Istvanffy for "Three Things"
Annie Josey for "Foodles∞"
Sarah Leibel for "Half-life"
Matthew Nerger for "Dick Van Dyke Gets Married"
Amy Nolan for "1983"
E. R. Rosewood for "The Last Months"
Henry Rozycki for "Johnny Cash on the Massachusetts Turnpike"
Elizabeth Santana for "Hitchhiker"
Ian Schimmel for "The Last Resort"
Catherine Shukle for "The Dipper's Nest"
Irene Tejaratchi Hess for "Run"
Steven Tweddell for "Twenty-first Century Purgatorio"
Ian Walters for "A Prayer For Mr. Potenza"
Anna Wang for "The Road Map"
Weike Wang for "Day Lives"
Alex Wilson for "Omega"
Michele Zimmerman for "Negatives"