GLIMMER TRAIN'S
FICTION OPEN

MARCH 2013

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Melissa R. Sipin for "Walang Hiya, Brother"

2nd-place winner:

Elizabeth Genovise for "Us vs. They"

3rd-place winner:

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier for "Charlie Golf, Charlie Golf One"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Jeffrey Anderson for "OblackO"
Graham Arnold for "The Champion of Wallop"
Josh Barkan for "The God of Common Names"
Eric Barnes for "Four Hundred Sixty-eight Stories"
Kate Braverman for "Skinny Broads With Wigs"
Catherine Browder for "Cafe Deux Monde"
Iracema Drew for "Asas Brancas"
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier for "Charlie Golf, Charlie Golf One"
Jessica Gregg for "Gifted"
Shoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia for "Sruli's Bris"
Benjamin Janse for "My Mother's Death Party"
John Paul Jaramillo for "Arkansas Flood 1964"
Cheri Johnson for "February"
Lillian Li for "Super Star"
Julia Prendergast for "Long Gone"
Young Rader for "Oido Beach, 1991"
Joanna Rose for "Crack and Break"
Peter Selgin for "Dolphin Dreams"
Al Sim for "A Problem With God"
Lucy Simpson for "The Care and Feeding of Captive Bears"
Dominic Smith for "Burns and Falls"
Philip Tate for "Reading Hemingway"
Girija Tropp for "Real Women"
Margaret Vandenburg for "Brave New York"
Jesse Wright for "The Mustard Seed Manual"