GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

MAY/JUNE 2017

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Daniel Murphy for "In Miniature"

2nd-place winner:

David Ye for "Blue Water"

3rd-place winner:

Jen Wellington for "Red Stick"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Rebecca Brams for "Surfacing"
Hannah Brennen for "Sink"
Rachel Ann Brickner for "American Made"
Charles Callahan for "Icarus"
Yoon Choi for "Song and Song"
Karin Cecile Davidson for "In the Great Wide"
Sujatha Fernandes for "Redtooth Triggerfish"
Rachel Finn-Lohmann for "The Everest"
Gabriela Garcia for "Everything Is Holding You Now"
Brian Jordan for "The Passenger"
Christine Kandic Torres for "Carajoland"
Mallory Laurel for "Sugar Cane Girls"
Amanda Nazario for "Ronkonkoma"
Alison Preston for "Double Down"
Sam Reese for "Message from an Itinerant Island"
Emily Scherny for "Argentine"
Josh Patrick Sheridan for "The Life and Times of Barton Bray, Abridged"
Yi Shi for "Torch Road"
Beejay Silcox for "Seven Failed Stories About Marilyn Monroe"
Johnna St. Cyr for "Overnight Shipping"
Michelle Syba for "End Times"
Chris Weigel for "A Kind of a Ring"