GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

AUGUST 2009

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Evan Christopher Burton for "Exposure"

2nd-place winner:

David Rothman for "Guided by Voices"

3rd-place winner:

Scott Tucker for "Touring"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Theodore Brady for "Pressed Together"
Bridget Brewer for "Fun for the Whole Family"
Vylinda Bryant for "Rolling Light"
Kathy Conde for "Storming Heaven"
Brad Eddy for "Victims of Conversion Disorder"
Benjamin Folk for "All of the Things You Need to Know"
Kevin Leahy for "Thruway"
Andrea Leeb for "Painted Bicycles"
Karin Lin-Greenberg for "Weight"
Gariot P. Louima for "Half in the Truth"
Margaret Malone for "People Like You"
John Mauk for "Crow in the Forehead"
Laurence Miall for "Missing Things"
Molly Reid for "Summer People"
Rebecca Scherm for "Insiders"
J. Kevin Shushtari for "The Sweet Dry Fruit of the Lotus Tree"
Montana Standish for "Pues, Nada"
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan for "Blue Talk and Love"
Stephen Torres for "Five Fingers as if by Chance"
Juan Felipe Vidal for "Pereira, 1981"
Ben Wheelon for "A Fish like That"
Walter Wong for "Sameson Jameson"