GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

SPRING 1997

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Lance Weller for "The Breathable Air"

2nd-place winner:

Catherine Seto for "The Other"

3rd-place winner:

Jennifer Tseng for "My Mother's Country"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Rebecca Alexander for "Carving Away"
Don Bartell for "Stop the Bleeding"
Leslie Carper for "Discovering Electricity"
Ronault Latang Sayang Catalan for "Indians and Turkeys and Toyotas"
Kay Elewski for "Hair Angels"
Patricia Fuentes for "Rope Flowers"
Elizabeth Gallu for "At Bunica's Knee"
Liz Gordon for "Dead in the Water"
Jean Hey for "Recovery Room"
Timothy Hickey for "This Hurricane Business"
Carole Levine for "The Birthday"
Bob Levy for "Did She Think There Was Dancing?"
Julie Mason for "Something for the Cold"
Neil Mathison for "The Night Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon"
Megan Olesky for "All Concrete Everywhere"
Linda Peavy for "Like It Matters"
Jessica Printz for "Unfurl"
Sheila Ramaprian for "Versions of a Flood"
K. E. Simpson for "Salvation"
John Wentworth for "Munndyllannii"
Jennifer Whitten for "Daughters"
David Yoo for "Hands"