GLIMMER TRAIN'S
FICTION OPEN

SEPTEMBER 2011

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Janis Hubschman for "Wilderness of Ghosts"

2nd-place winner:

Abe Gaustad for "Buch and the Snakestretchers"

3rd-place winner:

Andrew Tibbetts for "My Sister in Eleven Shots"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Robin Antalek for "Happy Birthday Suzie Epstein"
Joseph Ballou for "The Lies Surrounding the Goat"
Catherine Browder for "Departures"
Margaret Chen for "The Zhangs and The Zumans"
Tristan de Chalain for "Residua"
Stella Fiore for "Acrobat"
Nathan Hogan for "The Last Summer at the Lake"
Noy Holland for "Pachysandra"
Emily Jones for "The Difficulties of Time Travel"
John Matthews for "Help Wanted"
Maggie Maurer for "The Golden Age"
Sean McCarthy for "In Another Time"
Stefani Nellen for "Mortal Champions"
Kent Nelson for "Fog"
Jamie Quatro for "The Anointing"
Myra Radayeva for "Home Is Like Home"
Josie Sigler for "Tether"
Quenby Solberg for "Three Hundred Young Punks Who Should Know Better"
Kim Stafford for "Dragon Houses"
Adam Sturtevant for "The Pretenders"
Dina Nayeri Viergutz for "Our Places of Exile"
Eric Wasserman for "Lake Country"