GLIMMER TRAIN'S
FICTION OPEN

SEPTEMBER 2008

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Abby Geni for "Captivity"

2nd-place winner:

Maggie Shipstead for "Via Serenidad"

3rd-place winner:

Gregg Cusick for "Throwing Furniture"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Jacob Appel for "A Kaddish for the Missing"
Carol Bergman for "Water Baby"
Gabriel Boyer for "Love in the Western World"
Jennifer Budd for "The Woman with the Moon on Her Mouth"
Diane Chang for "The Season of Rain"
Vincent Eaton for "The Extraction"
David Fetcho for "Shooting Crows"
Matthew Fiander for "A Story to Tell"
Amina Gautier for "In the Event of Emergency"
Tracy Guzeman for "Fletcher"
Sandra Jensen for "New Year's Eve on the Wild Coast"
Christine Kloiber for "Preservation"
Margarite Landry for "Out of Egypt"
Philip Marino for "Little Pieces of Paper"
Viet Nguyen for "The War Years"
Horatio Potter for "Town and Country"
Anna Prushinskaya for "Simone"
Sara Rattan for "Salvage"
Ian Schwartz for "Walking Point"
Johanna Skibsrud for "Signac's Boats"
Rachel Swearingen for "Shoreward in Yawls"
William Winston for "Pilgrims"