GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

NOVEMBER 2012

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Christopher Marnach for "Death Week at the Funeral Card Company"

2nd-place winner:

Joseph Chavez for "Stowaways"

3rd-place winner:

Elise Winn for "After Ida"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Matthew Ankeny for "Nature Shadows Him"
Kate Ascott-Evans for "Return Trip"
Amanda Avutu for "Thieves"
Sylvie Baumgartel for "Hunting"
Joseph Bird for "The Mystery Hole"
William Burns for "E-Crush"
Jackie Cassidy for "Paradise Avenue"
Andrea Eaker for "Consenting Children"
Rachel Elliott for "Wild Eyes, Dancing Feet"
Menachem Kaiser for "Baby Zango Walks"
Jennifer Lee for "American Brewery"
Brian Miller for "Paper Lanterns"
Jeff Minton for "Fake Rubber"
Robert Pickett for "Wind"
Liz Prato for "A Proportional Response"
Morgan Schulz for "Not in My backyard"
Laura Steadham Smith for "Someone to Calm Me"
Emily Swank-Kavanaugh for "The Day God Left Me"
Liz Tucker for "The Misunderstood Curse of Diego Villarreal"
Katherine Van Dis for "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
Isaac Webb for "Middle of Nowhere"
Ben Wheelon for "My Life as a Moneylender"