GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

MAR/APR 2016

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Trevor Crown for "Late-Period Ruiz"

2nd-place winner:

Kate Gale for "Australian Thieves"

3rd-place winner:

John Bensink for "Throwing Out the Vizio Box"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Sarah-Jane Abate for "The Dimock News"
Kathy Chao for "The Journal of Negative Results"
Elizabeth Cohen for "The Attendance Line"
Elizabeth G. Fennell for "This Is My Country"
B.W. Hewitt for "The Ride from Izmir"
Eyal Kedar for "The Beginning"
Rebecca Koffman for "The Ladies Pond"
Sara A. Lewis for "Circulation"
Mercedes N. Lucero for "The Possible Causes of Your Suffering"
Madeleine Maillet for "Chester Carnegie's Tweed"
Israela Margalit for "California King Size"
Erin McGraw for "Pebbles"
Tanner McSwain for "The Red Sea"
Ari Moskowitz for "Three Blinking Dots"
Nicholas R. Olson for "Brought to Shore"
Jill M. Poskanzer for "Lost"
Stephanie J. Reents for "Subletters"
Hank Snelgrove for "Fire in the Foam Bin"
Alana B. Trumpy for "Compline"
Diana Xin for "Here Is the Church, Here Is the Steeple"
Kelsey K. Yoder for "No Disaronno"
Paul Zakaras for "I See More of My Father Now"