GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

SPRING 2002

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Vu Tran for "Monsoon"

2nd-place winner:

Nalini Jones for "What You Call Winter"

3rd-place winner:

Eileen Cruz Coleman for "El Barco"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Prayas Abhinav for "Sandcastles in War-time"
Sara Agne for "Ant Hills"
Thomas Anderson for "Flight"
Jessica Anthony for "Feeling Good in Misery, Missouri"
Dalia Azim for "Landing"
Kim Ben-Porat for "Suburbia in the Middle East"
Jami Brandli for "Technicolor Wigs"
Jane Dorfman for "Lion of God"
Melanie Fallon for "Communion"
Mike Hinken for "Jeopardizing the Symmetry"
Penelope Lanphier for "The Fish Blessing"
Yiyun Li for "Pomegranate"
David Lobenstine for "Dissections"
Michael G. Martin for "The Strange Ways People Are"
Marcella Massa for "The Scorpion"
Jono Mischkot for "Balloon Animals"
Viet Nguyen for "Speakeasy"
Rishi Reddi for "Bangles"
Michael Schiavone for "Sterile"
Sherry Shaw for "Finishing October"
Natalie Stiene for "The Bright Idea"
Matthew Swayne for "Blessing"