GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

NOVEMBER 2008

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig for "Monkeys of the Sea"

2nd-place winner:

Stephen M. McCabe for "The Net of Blue Angels"

3rd-place winner:

Marco Fernando Navarro for "Enough"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Sylvan Allen for "Lilypads of Light"
Claire Barwise for "A Fortress of Hay"
Elizabeth Burton for "Creakings"
Karla Ch'ien for "For Jay"
Jaclyn Costello for "Anna and the Island"
Rachel Furey for "Drowning Beetles"
Haley Hemen for "Acclimation"
Erica Herd for "Bird Man of Raspberry Park"
Sativa January for "What Margaret Left"
Alex Keegan for "Defined"
Maya Lang for "Talking"
Marc Miller for "This Perfect World"
Mark Rapacz for "The Many Wavelengths of Cougar Nightshade"
Josh Raymond for "El Salvador del Rey"
Erica Salazar Greenstein for "Sweeney's"
Asako Serizawa for "Allegiance"
Timothy Smith for "Rhyme and Reason"
Kaitlin Solimine for "Flying Lessons"
Judith Stiles for "Blame The Marsh Gases"
Nick Stokes for "The Last Time I Sweated"
Stacy Vege for "To Zanzibar by Motor Car"
James Wheeler for "Russell Street"