GLIMMER TRAIN'S
FICTION OPEN

JUNE 2012

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Stefani Nellen for "Men in Pink Tutus"

2nd-place winner:

Tom Kealey for "The Lost Brother"

3rd-place winner:

Ben Fowlkes for "Something Something Land Down Under"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Jacob Appel for "Some Helpful Background for the Incoming Tenant"
Louise Aronson for "Lucky You"
Kathleen Capps for "Blackberry Woman"
May-lee Chai for "The Family, As If"
Amanda Copeland for "Campbell & Evans"
Jennifer Davis for "Deals with God"
Rebecca "Ree" Davis for "A Terrible Energy"
Linda L. Dunlap for "A.J. and Crazy Woman"
Stephen Finucan for "Aftermath"
Rob Guthrie for "The Rest of His Glorious Life"
Ruth Joffre for "Vanilla"
Trina Machacek for "Dead Guy Stuff"
Natalie McAllister for "If There Was Ever a Time"
Kent Nelson for "The Sea Will Wear Down Gold"
Brittani Sonnenberg for "A Guide to Shoplifting in Berlin"
Richard Spilman for "How I Became a Writer"
Karinne Syers for "Eileen"
Gabriel Tallent for "The Believer"
Kem Joy Ukwu for "Speakers & Headphones"
Jessie Volk for "The Last Recruit"
Elizabeth Whitehurst for "Cemetery Road"
Patricia Zierke for "Dewey Bower and the Water Tower"