GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

FEBRUARY 2011

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Joanna Arnow for "Waiting for Food Stamps"

2nd-place winner:

Brian Zimbler for "Dumbguy"

3rd-place winner:

Jason Wallace for "Chasing Murakami"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Robin Becker for "How Roller Coasters Work: The Warchalowski Sisters"
Liz Bell Young for "In Final Light"
Jason Chow for "Billings Street"
Samuel Cooper for "Some Meaning"
Kevin Corbin for "Lost"
Gen Del Raye for "The Wondrous Blue Forever Song"
Adam Douba for "Spinning House"
Patrick Faller for "Marks"
Kristen Fiore for "Kicking Toward the Sun"
Sara Grossman for "11 Stops"
Brady Hammes for "It Gets Away From You"
Jane Keyler for "Home Is Just a Word"
Emil Kim for "One Day"
Sara Leitenberger for "Emergency Donkey"
Aline Ohanesian for "The Will"
Daniel Plate for "Boner for Comics"
Lenore Rowntree for "On Fire"
Lydia Suarez for "Jersey Mambo"
Jessica Wallin Mace for "Kites"
Nathan Andrew Wilson for "When My Numbers Come Up"
Denis Wong for "The View From Huangpu River"
Angel Di Zhang for "The Moon Festival Bird"