GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

SPRING 1999

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Jana Martin for "Hope"

2nd-place winner:

Bruce Jacobson for "Accidental Sex"

3rd-place winner:

Greg Baxter for "Chavez"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Trish Annese for "Noonlight"
Jeff Becker for "From Marissa to Ohio"
Laura Bramon for "Daniel-Dear"
Douglas Eugene Crandell for "Jets"
Kristen Desmond for "Frigidaire"
Graeme Fordyce for "Foot Launched, Foot Landed"
John Fulmer for "Matamoros"
Kathryn Hoffman Hughes for "Thin Ice"
Meg Kelly for "T Bone"
Marc Krulewitch for "The Christian House"
Janina Lamb for "Things that Can Happen to People"
Gina Ochsner for "Cartography of a Heart"
Brandi Reissenweber for "Howling"
Matt Rigney for "The Pride"
Jonathan Schweig for "Peter and the Dream of Teeth"
Clara Stites for "Naming the Stones"
Sufjan Stevens for "My Father Is the Vine"
Ginger Strand for "As Farmers Do"
Mary L. Tabor for "Impossible Translation"
Eric Torskey for "Of a Feather"
Terry Vandermark for "A Little Lower than the Angels"
Rachel Anne Venuti for "Why I Don’t Live in Lawrence"