GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

MARCH/APRIL 2019

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Rachael Uwada Clifford for "What the Year Will Swallow"

2nd-place winner:

Doug Kiklowicz for "I Used to Be Funny"

3rd-place winner:

Ashley Alliano for "Do Something"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Marilyn Abildskov for "The Wedding"
Frances Barnet for "Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House"
Pritha Bhattacharyya for "Long Division"
Stace Budzko for "Welcome Home, Henry"
Keyera Carter for "No Church in the Wild"
Will Kelly for "What Does It Feel Like to Die in a Plane Crash?"
Jami Kimbrell for "Where to Start"
Anna Kofield for "Ceremony"
Michael Marino for "Don't Ask Me Where"
Kailyn McCord for "The West We Leave"
Maggie Pahos for "The Queen of the Skies"
Ali Roberts for "I'm Ushered out with the Last of Them"
Meg Serino for "Thumb into My Palm"
Sherry Shaw for "Picking Up"
Jordan Sutlive for "Two-Headed Dog"
Belinda Tang for "A Perfect Snip"
Benjamin Thorp for "Apophenia"
Brandon Timm for "The Sacred Things of Other People"
K.C. Vance for "Spell"
Danny Thiemann Venegas for "Boardman, Oregon"
Elvira Vera for "The Day Papa Folded into the Sky"
Aaron Zuckerman for "Disarmed Brothers"