GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

MAY/JUNE 2016

Honorable Mentions, listed in alphabetical order:

Silmi S. Abdullah for "A Good Family"
Anne B. Adams for "Moses with Horns"
Senaa Ahmad for "Where the City Ends"
Shoaib Alam for "Wonderland"
Dee S. Andrews for "The Enemy Within"
Samantha R. Baldassari for "Thin Air"
Julia L. Barclay for "The God Thing"
David Beaty for "To Grikou"
Cora Bernard for "Monday/Tuesday"
Wendi E. Berry for "Eating Lunch in Cars"
Dani Blackman for "We Must've Been Magnificent"
JD Blair for "Downer"
Nancy C. Branka for "Unspoken"
Lucie C. Britsch for "Stop Procrastinating and Start Your Own Food Business"
Sarah Buckser for "Thoughts on Fathers, My Personal Life, and Cats"
Miriam Camitta for "Diagnosis"
Martinus Claasen for "Technically It Wouldn't Be Cheating"
Kathy Conde for "Stirring Things Up"
Edel Corrigan for "Life Begins Again"
Jeff J. Cravens for "How to Survive Bedtime as an Adopted Navajo Teen"
Rachel C. Dalamangas for "The Leftovers"
Ashley M. Dantzler for "Above Average"
Jonathan S. Danyliw for "Climbing the Mountain"
Diane Demeter for "Saraswati"
Kate Doyle for "Origin of the Episode"
Marty L. Eberhardt for "Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Indians, 1970"
Alun Evans for "Such a Laugh"
Deborah Fleming for "Easy Lives"
Racheal Forlow for "These Currents Generate a Phase Change"
Nik Gallicchio for "The Things that Happen to Other People"
Gabriela M. Garcia for "Dance Not Beyond the Distant Mountain"
Benjamin A. Gardner for "Itsy-Bitzy Man"
Natalia Ginsburg for "Natural History"
Jonathan A. Gonzalez for "A Few Good Miles"
Donna Gordon for "Blood Moon"
Megan K. Goss for "Cretaceous"
Yen Ha for "Holding Her Hand"
Laura Hancock for "Chimera"
Fahima Haque for "That Thing You Will Do Again"
Bradley Hatley for "The 38th Unparalleled"
Marina I. Hatsopoulos for "Road Out of Damascus"
Hillary M. Hebert for "Amsterdam"
Robert M. Herrmann for "Madeleine"
Chelsea Hickok for "Love Apple"
Dan Hong for "Missing"
Landon Houle for "A New Calibration"
Ana Hurtado for "The Monster of the Andes"
Moss C. Ingram for "Same As It Ever Was"
John P. Isaacs for "The Root Cellar"
Brady D. Jackson for "The Odd Banana"
Robert L. Johnson for "Bobby Kennedy"
Joanna Kadish for "A Day with the In-Laws"
Maxime J. Kawawa-Beaudan for "What's Buried"
Will Kelly for "Drive Like Your Kids Live Here"
Elayne M. Klasson for "The Buddha Within Him"
William E. Klein for "The Open"
Carl R. Lavigne for "Bob & the Black Bear"
Jodi Lew-Smith for "Mathematical Formulas for Girl Bands"
Sara A. Lewis for "Introduction to Chemistry"
Katharine A. Lorr for "Routes"
Zachary R. Lunn for "Out of the Woods"
Paul M. Maisano for "The Weather"
Mary Maloney for "Patterns"
Scott E. Mashlan for "Beasts of the Wisconsin Prairie"
Sharon D. Mertins for "Plankton"
Janet Moore for "Dove Hunt"
Edgar M. Moran for "Growing Up in World War II"
Bruce W. Moss for "The Trail"
Aram J. Mrjoian for "Light Bulb"
Christi Nogle for "The Drought, 1983"
Mario R. Padilla for "Scales"
Patrick C. Paeplow for "Scofflaws"
Jeanne E. Panfely for "Beachy Head"
Meagan A. Perry for "KonMari Your Family"
Travis J. Pike for "Prelude to an Unexplainable Tragedy"
Julia R. Prendergast for "Sundowning"
Carol Quinn for "Darién"
ZM Quynh for "The Seashell"
Bryce A. Radick for "Timelines"
Jalees Rehman for "The Sounds of Lagos"
Mark S. Rosati for "Last Stand"
Lacey Rowland for "The Late Wife"
Jon C. Savage for "SuspenseTV"
Ben S. Shattuck for "Voyagers"
Justin D. Spaller for "The Falls"
Jennifer Stern for "Lights"
Ann C. Stoney for "The Other Side"
Michelle Templeton for "A Good Sky"
Shayne Terry for "Turtles"
Meghann Tovar for "Comedian on the Border"
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan for "7C"
Alejandro Varela for "Our Guy in Uruguay"
Grant J. Venables for "She Made Me Almost Like Journey"
William Walsh for "Dinner for Two"
Whitney Watson for "Wanderlieder"
Evan M. White for "Patterson"
Kaye S. Williams for "Forty Third Avenue"
T. M. Williams for "Infinite Sadness"
Landa wo for "The Bavarian Prisoner"
Beck Wren for "Closing Day"
Kim Wyatt for "Minor Waves in the Firmament"
Chellis S. Ying for "A True Leader"
Pam Zhang for "Colossi"
Dawson S. Zimmermann for "The Sea of Trees"