GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

NOVEMBER 2015

Honorable Mentions, listed in alphabetical order:

Diana C. Advani for "Tequila Night"
Jennifer Alton for "Road Kill"
Emily M. Anderson for "We Live Next To The Police Station And The Lights Go Off All Night"
Leon Anderson for "The Sins of the Father"
Kit Anderson for "Kemper Gets Banned From Baseball"
Amir Ahmadi Arian for "The Still Life"
Leslie G. Blanco for "Cuba Sí, Yanqui No"
Mason D. Boyles for "Deer"
Auguste Budhram for "No Really. What Are You?"
Flannery D. Cashill for "Kid Catalog"
Rebecca A. Chekouras for "Free to Good Home"
Kathy Conde for "This Is the Place Where It All Breaks Down: A Family Alphabet"
Cassie E. Condrey for "It Can Break"
April A. Darcy for "Crossing Over"
Matt Echelberry for "A Busy Day"
Brian D. Figurski for "Gray"
Francesca E. Giacco for "Madeline"
Damla O. Goksu for "Wanted: Someone to Die With"
Emma K. Gow for "Ask Cora"
Ben Hasskamp for "Mailboxes Are Always the Only Victims"
Ian R. Jacoby for "Those Drones"
Will Kelly for "Other Susan"
Joan S. Kovach for "The Griefs"
Elizabeth P. Lahti for "In No Time"
Carly Lane for "Openings and Proofs"
Callie Lewis for "In Guantánamo"
Leeyee Lim for "The Mountain of Longing"
Marco Maisto for "Julie's Qualification, or Adolescence in Iowa and Other Irradiated Hideouts for God and Sex"
Kelley E. March for "Trying Not to Let the Dog Drown Us"
Michael McAllister for "A Story About a Very Bad Thing"
Nancy T. McGlasson for "At the End of the Train"
Bridget E. Meeds for "Time and Meat"
Matt Miller for "Love, and Its Relation to Poop"
John J. Mooney for "Rise, Texans!"
Michelle M. Mostaed for "The Dog"
Oindrila Mukherjee for "Us"
Sooyeon Nahm for "Relocation"
Timothy O'Leary for "Homeless Gary Busey"v Caitlin O'Neil for "And Son"
Micheal O'Siochain for "Jerry Remembers"
Beesan Odeh for "Great Big White World"
Raul Palma for "Reflections of Reflections"
Carmen Petaccio for "Militancy"
James L. Pickens for "The Birth of Conscience"v Stephen C. Putnam for "American Dream"
Ann T. Quintano for "The Staircase"
Jennifer N. Raphael for "Fortress"
Jackie Reitzes for "Futures Game"
Hamish W. Rickett for "Just Knock On My Door"
Anna E. Schott for "North Fork of the Yuba River"
Jane Seaford for "A Tiny Escape of Air"
Sujata Shekar for "Feeling Words"
Noa Silver for "Strangers"
Travis J. Snyder for "A Certain Kind of Exile"
Laura Price Steele for "Animal"
Kate V. Swoboda for "White Trash"
Benjamin Tedoff for "The End-Times at Landesdownesville High"
Tom Trondson for "Year of the Jedi"
Charlie L. Wakenshaw for "A Man and a Woman"
Ashley Whitaker for "Naked Man Billboard Fort Worth"
Irene Zhao for "Moon Girl"
Brian A. Zimmerman for "The Other Half"
Aaron Zuckerman for "Disarmed Brothers"