GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

FEBRUARY 2015

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Lillian Li for "Parts of Summer"

2nd-place winner:

Alex Wilson for "I Come From Killers"

3rd-place winner:

Camille Baptista for "Hide and Seek and Hide"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Mari Casey for "Plans"
Neha Chaudhary-Kamdar for "Nineteen Things About My Friend Farzana"
Isobel Cunningham for "The Douglas"
David Dinkins for "Essay From Methodist Hospital, Ninth Floor"
Dylan Fisher for "23"
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry for "Cossacks and Highwaymen"
Marina Hatsopoulos for "Iron Dome"
Daniel Johnson for "Communions"
Julia LaSalle for "August SPF"
Rachel Mamola for "Stones Above the Igloo"
Daniel Nazer for "The Regimen"
Robin Nimirowski for "The Tallest Trees in the World"
Dini Parayitam for "Beached Statues"
Julia Prendergast for "Like Clay"
Nicole Roche for "Stories for Strangers"
Tamar Schreibman for "Beards & Other Things I Detest"
Michael Schwartz for "Rainbow in a Cloud"
Katherine Sinclair for "Upriver Journey"
James W. Tucker for "Cloud of the Gods"
Landa wo for "Fanta"
Ethan Yarbrough for "Undaunted"
Sally Yazwinski for "I'm the End"