GLIMMER TRAIN'S
FICTION OPEN

MARCH 2008

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Frederick Reiken for "Shadow"

2nd-place winner:

Yelizaveta Renfro for "Splendid, Silent Sun"

3rd-place winner:

Emma Roper-Evans for "Rice Dish"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Maureen Aitken for "The Ways of Accidents"
Kate Braverman for "Yellow Fever"
Ioanna Carlsen for "The Way of the World"
Erica Ciccarone for "Hold Me, Wojtek"
Sharon Dilworth for "Son of Burning Man"
Benjamin Doty for "Things Said and Forgotten"
Joanna Hershon for "Traveling in the Moment"
Ben Huberman for "Tribes"
Sativa January for "The Value of Certain Things"
Kate Kasten for "The Jack Story"
Caroline Lockwood Nelson for "Sunny Day on the Side of the Road"
Erin McReynolds for "Viva"
Rachel Meier for "Causeway"
Matt Mendez for "Twitching Heart"
Matthew Muller for "What's Left Behind"
Viet Nguyen for "The Reincarnation of Arthur Arellano, or the Necessity of Things Never Before Considered"
Shelly Oria for "This Way I Don't Have to Be"
M. Slotznick for "Sovann"
Laura van den Berg for "Up High in the Air"
Josh Weil for "In the Heart of the Water, at the Edge of the Woods"
Emily Westerweller for "Stones Rise While Houses Settle"
Naomi Williams for "Snow Men"