GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

NOVEMBER 2013

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Natasha Tamate Weiss for "What It Means to Rush"

2nd-place winner:

Amy Evans Brown for "The Hudson"

3rd-place winner:

Gabe Herron for "Uriah"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Emily Amodeo for "We're Not Pageant People"
Sura Antolín for "Salt"
Marni Berger for "Waterside"
George Blecher for "Are There Hindu Gods on the Upper West Side?"
Rochelle Distelheim for "Comfort Me with Apples"
Blair Donahue for "Under the Bridge"
Donal Flynn for "My Fellow Americans"
Evelyn Maria Gonzalez for "In Defense of Jimmy Carter"
Jamie Hare for "The Unexpected"
Liz Harmer for "You Talk to People"
Jenna Hymes for "It Mostly Just Very Slowly Knocked Me to the Ground"
Joanna Kadish for "An American-Style Wedding"
Khaled Khlifi for "Translations"
Eli Lindert for "Watching a Girl You Might Have Loved Get Dressed to Work the Bars"
Kari Middleton for "Migration"
Andrea Ruggirello for "The Elephants"
Erica Shubin for "Sleeping Dogs"
Michael Stevens for "I Have Reason to Believe We Both Will Be Received"
Vanessa Wang for "Blossoming"
Ashley Williams for "Undercurrent"
Daniel Woody for "People Always Said"
Michele Zimmerman for "Rhythms"