GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

AUGUST 2014

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

John Thornton Williams for "Darling, Keith, The Subway Girl, and Jumping Joe Henry"

2nd-place winner:

Stefan De La Garza for "Chiaroscuro"

3rd-place winner:

Laura Jok for "As It Were"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Jackie Bee for "Mice and Missiles"
Kirk Boys for "Worriers"
Chris Camargo for "Portuguese"
Dianne Dugaw for "My Continuing Education"
Zein El-Amine for "Circus Circus"
Nora Fussner for "Like Disaster"
Jesse Goulard for "The Last Honeybee"
Anabel Graff for "Our Apartment, Spring 2013"
Thad Kenner for "Learning to Spot Aquatic Distress"
Jennifer Knox for "West on N Road"
John A. Maloney for "Ucitelka"
Colin Milburn for "As the Tide Rushes In"
Jeff Moscaritolo for "Evolve"
Pacifica Noel for "As Far As I Can Go"
Benjamin Olcott for "Clay"
Katie Reilly for "Rabbit Season"
Jacqueline Reitzes for "New Words in Ancient Languages"
Dorothy Rice for "Things I Miss"
Nina Rubinstein Alonso for "Emporium West"
Tinker Saudade for "Knot"
Margie Skelly for "Standing in the Dark with my Family"
Dandan Xin for "Some Kind of Grace"