GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

MAY 2014

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Caro Beth Clark for "The Kind I Really Am"

2nd-place winner:

Robert Kirkbride for "These Things"

3rd-place winner:

Gaetan Sgro for "We Are All Snowflakes and Cities"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Emma Arett for "A Part of My Life That Used to Be Really Important"
Siddhartha Banerjee for "The German Who Drank Dutch Beer"
Jim Bosiljevac for "There Is in This Dirty Night a Running Chase Off and Away"
Elizabeth Brown for "The Law of Lame Parties at the End of the Night"
Janna Cohen for "Five Pictures"
Michael Danaher for "Cards"
Adam Drucker for "Drowsy Divinity"
William Feuer for "Sarah Always Dying"
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry for "New Life"
Joshua Graber for "Freeman Göttschall Experiences One or Two More or Less Improbable Events"
Kerry Hill for "The Ouroboros"
Moye Ishimoto for "Keep Me Hangin' On"
Janet Kim for "The New Mother"
Anna Ko for "Iris"
Steve Lautermilch for "Rings"
Adam Paulus for "This Is What I Think About When I Can't Sleep at Night"
John Purfield for "A Few Things You Should Know About American Boys"
Garrett Quinn for "Imagine What They Could Do to You"
Tracey Ruby for "Phoropter"
Tracey Ruby for "Marriage"
Sara Schaff for "Diatomaceous Earth"
Tamar Schreibman for "Beards & Other Things I Detest"
Samuel Stackhouse for "The Reunion"