GLIMMER TRAIN'S
FICTION OPEN

MARCH 2009

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Justin Torres for "Surrender Unto Us"

2nd-place winner:

Vauhini Vara for "We'll Rise Above the Sky"

3rd-place winner:

Keith Meatto for "Tierra Santa"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Jessie Aufiery for "The Pleasure of Giving"
Frank Babics for "November Beneath the Wharf"
Elaine Barnard for "Water"
Timothy Bascom for "The Guide"
Lucy Jane Bledsoe for "Girl with Boat"
Natalia Cortes Chaffin for "Babes"
Scott Cheshire for "Watchers"
Lisa Gornick for "The Barberini Princess"
Anabel Graff for "The Homeless Ones"
Valle Hansen for "Painting Buses"
Aubrey Hirsch for "The Disappearance of Maliseet Lake"
Kevin Hyde for "The Djinn of the Burj"
Martha Joyce for "Year of the Turtle"
Sean Kim for "Collision"
Carrie Knowles for "Searching for Clint Eastwood"
Christiana Langenberg for "Maybe It's A Wednesday"
Christina Murphy for "Ringing True"
Rudolf Okonkwo for "The Butcher, The Surgeon and Me"
Aimee Phan for "Kim-Ly in Vegas"
Whitney Pinion for "This Will Only Hurt for a Minute"
Jane Rosenzweig for "The Secret of Life"
Patricia Stevens for "Marble-Cone Summer"