GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

AUGUST 2012

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Natalie Sypolt for "My Brothers and Me"

2nd-place winner:

Greg Schreur for "Third World Kroger"

3rd-place winner:

Riley Johnson for "Up the Snowy Grade"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Emily Atkinson for "The Quality of Mercy"
Anthony Brahim for "The Thorazine Shuffle"
Joanne Chin for "Light the House"
Roseann Cima for "Going Solo"
John-Paul Cirelli for "We Now Begin Our Descent"
Jennafer D'Alvia for "Waiting for Hercules"
Luke Fiske for "The Bodies in Perch Lake"
Janice Henderson for "The Baby"
Mark Lawley for "Origins of Yearning"
Joseph Lucido for "The Floating"
Justine McGhee for "Chinchilla"
Andy Millman for "The Driver's Seat"
Chinwe Ndubuka for "On Speaking Terms"
Allyson O'Rourke-Barrett for "There the Weary Be at Rest"
Marc Petersen for "Very Kindness Nice"
Michael Piafsky for "Baby Names"
Rebecca Scherm for "Neighbors"
William Shih for "The pH of Blood"
Shannon Smith for "There Is No Ocean"
Creighton Stevenson for "You, Run"
Rachel Teotico for "The North Cemetery"
Timothy Zila for "High Life"