GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

MAY/JUNE 2016

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Erin Rose Belair for "Rare Items from the Universe"

2nd-place winner:

Julia Phillips for "Nadia"

3rd-place winner:

Angela So for "The Water in Our Hearts Has Fallen"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Kathryn L. Atwood for "The O-Bone"
Frederica Morgan Davis for "One Hundred Lovers"
Rocco D. DeBonis for "Smoke"
Helena R. Duncan for "Juniper"
Richard G. Ferrara for "The Lost"
Connor A. Greer for "Darting There"
Tom Haddox for "Sweetness and Malaise"
Todd Hearon for "Do Geese See God"
Jacqueline N. Holland for "The Laws of Dying"
Elizabeth Gonzalez James for "Cosmic Blues"
Conor D. Kelley for "And It Is No Joke"
KJ Kern for "Weenie Boys"
Joel A. Pehanick for "Shards"
Carmen A. Petaccio for "Curtains"
Louis E. Rodia for "Always Arriving"
Tamar A. Schreibman for "Expecting"
Sara Seelmeyer for "Gasoline and Plastic"
Gaetan Sgro for "Ten Tracks That Are Waiting to Take You Back"
Catriona B. Shine for "Dead End"
Anne Vinsel for "Goyische Turkey with Post-its"
Ben D. Werner for "A Letter to the Editor"
David Ye for "Verichrome"