GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

MAY 2012

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Michael Deagler for "Etymology"

2nd-place winner:

Tom Dibblee for "Stuck in a Sixth Floor Penthouse"

3rd-place winner:

Andrew Slater for "New Me"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Hasan Altaf for "Inheritance"
Tamar Altebarmakian for "Sit Still and I'll Weave"
Jerry Blanton for "Old Horses"
Laura Huey Chamberlain for "The Soldier's Wife"
Vera Chernysheva for "Chernoglazaya"
Stephen Crockett, Jr for "Fishbone"
Jennifer Davis for "Deals with God"
Erin Fortenberry for "Mastodon"
Grant Garland for "Misery"
Jennifer Hanno for "My Thoughts Exactly"
Menachem Kaiser for "Baby Zango Walks"
Alisha Kaplan for "The Lord's Barbershop"
Gemma Kay for "Conversations on Death"
Karen Kovacs for "Gin Bugs"
Christina McCarroll for "Seafarers"
Louise Miller for "Double Happiness"
Dalia Rosenfeld for "The Worlds We Think We Know"
Asako Serizawa for "Train to Harbin"
Sandra Starkweather for "Both"
Jessi Stevens for "Mahogany"
Josef K. Strosche for "Willibald Seidl"
Siamak Vossoughi for "Raghead"