GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Amy Wang for "Gravity"

2nd-place winner:

Gabriel Thibodeau for "Circling"

3rd-place winner:

Aleyna Rentz for "Con Affetto"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Jenessa Abrams for "The Shiva Checklist"
Kathleen Bannon for "Knowing Dad"
Diana Clarke for "Meat"
Paul Curley for "Dogs Don't Know About Fallujah"
Ian D'Emilia for "It's Not Too Late"
Timothy DeLizza for "I Cannot Help You with This"
A. Fodor for "Bastards"
Scott Gloden for "Watershed Down"
Sophia Hotung for "Pigeon Boy"
Alexa Hudson for "Sixteen Attempts at Summarizing My Life"
Scott Hunter for "Twin"
Vida James for "Domestic Animals"
Anne Kilfoyle for "Act like a Snit"
Nathan Machart for "That Kind of Man"
Hunter Mclendon for "34% of This Story Is a Lie"
Rebecca Moore for "Boris, in a Week"
Stephen Mortland for "How to Carve a Rabbit"
Matthew Nerger for "Dick Van Dyke Gets Married"
Zackariah Rybak for "Something American"
Taylor Sutton for "Shadows"
Matthew Talamini for "The Semaphore System"
Sierra Vine for "Soybean Paste Soup"