GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016

Honorable Mentions, listed in alphabetical order:

Sakena Abedin for "Shalini"
Jenessa R. Abrams for "How To Have A Shiva"
Yvonne M. Adams for "Have"
Michael P. Adams for "In These Arms"
Mike Alberti for "The River"
Skye H. Anicca for "Places I've Never Been"
Stephanie J. Arditte for "Dreaming About Bears"
D. Avraham for "God Wrestling"
Kate B. Bonnici for "Ritual"
Taylor G. Bostick for "About the Author"
Claire Brankin for "Problems with Painting"
Lucie Britsch for "Eat the Yoghurt, Brian"
Emily H. Brout for "Sisphiliphus"
Jeffrey A. Browning for "The Lucid Interval"
Philip Brunst for "Vagabonds of the Western World"
Mark Bryk for "In the Glare"
Myles R. Buchanan for "Night Skiing"
Penelope D. Cardoza for "Going Bananas"
Amber Caron for "Fixed Blade"
Joseph H. Cary for "Discombobulated"
Julie A. Clark for "The Ones We Choose"
Theodore A. Cohen for "Something for Your Pain"
Kathy Conde for "A Family Alphabet"
Kaiyuh R. Cornberg for "O’Reilly’s Necessity Grocer"
Elizabeth Crowens for "Memoirs of an American Butterfly"
Chad A. Crumm for "Shitstorm"
Lacey Daley for "As You Sow"
Clayton M. Dalton for "Pseudoseizure"
Bruna Dantas Lobato for "First-Hand Account"
Ray Day for "An Egg in Her Honor"
Laura S. Distelheim for "On Catching a Glimpse of Perth, Australia from a Hospital Room in Illinois"
Janelle L. Drumwright for "Smilestone"
Mary Elizabeth Dubois for "I Guess That This Must Be the Place"
Yasser El-Sayed for "A Winter for Longing"
Avery C. Erwin for "Notice to Disappear"
Kris Faatz for "Bird Fly Away Home"
Ethan Feuer for "Singularity"
William A. Freeman for "Bamiyan"
Rebekah L. Gainsley for "Election"
CJ Godwin for "Checkers"
Farai V. Gotora for "Eyes Are Weird."
Prince E. Grace for "Commuting Is No Joke"
Barbara A. Hanley for "Stairs"
Emory Harkins for "Parts of Us"
Ariel Rudolph Harwick for "Down East"
Joseph Holt for "Sad Elizabeth"
David M. Irland for "Vena Cava"
Terry Jenoure for "That Noise in Her Head"
Nicholas D. Johnson for "Teotwawki”
Elizabeth D. Johnston for "Everything Bitter"
Menachem Kaiser for "My Parents and I Have a Conversation About What Really Matters"
Sam M. Katz for "Grease Pole"
Eyal Kedar for "It Came and Then I Saw"
Kathleen A. Kennedy for "The Value of a Life"
Roya Khatiblou for "The Two Blancas"
Martin J. Kleinman for "A Time of All Others"
Peter Koch for "Ingress"
Raki Kopernik for "The Things You Left"
Elizabeth P. Lahti for "Fixed and Dilated"
Ethan G. Leonard for "Creeley's Drop"
Gregory Luther for "Jakob Lothe (1946 - )"
Ryan S. MacLennan for "The Llano Quemado Retirement Community"
Isaiah M. Margulies for "The Unnamed Pub"
Lydia Martin for "The Adjustment Act"
Donald T. McCarthy for "A Different Me"
Brumby McGehee for "50 Years Ago"
Wayne McMahon for "The Man with the Scottish Accent"
Natalie A. Mesnard for "The Man From Cairo"
Jared A. Moore for "The Kendo Sword"
Matt R. Morgenstern for "George Makes Some Changes"
Daphne E. Muller for "What It's Like"
Thomas Naselaris for "The Day of Double Sleep"
Tiffany Nelson for "The Carpet Baby"
David R. Norman for "Strike the Glass"
Meaghan C. Novi for "Weird"
Olufunke O. Ogundimu for "My Mothers Never Tell the Truth"
Benjamin J. Olins for "Yard Work"
Adam Padgett for "Interior"
Timothy L. Parrish for "History (Albert and Michelle)"
Andrea L. Passwater for "Victoria"
Elske M. Rahill for "House"
Meredith W. Reiches for "For the Sustenance of Wandering Jews"
Dan Reiter for "Pavlovich"
Leo Rios for "Dirty Dishes"
Kelly Rowe for "Consolation"
Matt Salyer for "He Do the Police in Voices"
Caleb M. Sarvis for "Refuge Rats"
Christopher Scott for "Who Really Saved The Cathedral?"
Elizabeth Scott for "Learner's Permit"
Larry M. Silberfein for "Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant"
Margie L. Skelly for "The Day Her Feet Stood Still In 1968"
Cammie L. Smith for "How to Be a Survivor"
Rebecca Spagnuolo for "What the Body Told"
Kate Spitzmiller for "U-156"
Alex Stein for "The Last Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
Spencer Stephens for "Hot Days in Heavy Wool"
Nick Story for "The Baby and the Famous Tree"
Krischan Stotz for "There's Hardly Anyone Not Yet in Bed Who Can Legally Sleep in Osoyoos"
Tegan Swanson for "All the Girls in Sunday House Get Lost"
Samuel Teeter for "Notes From Dublin"
Linh P. Tran for "Will You Please Let Me Know, Please?"
Thomas N. Trzyna for "Sunspots"
Susan O. Underwood for "The Last Boy with Polio"
Pam Van Dyk for "We Don't Have To Talk About It"
Debbie A. Vance for "Chokoloskee Island"
Dennis L. Vanvick for "Something Like Culture Shock"
Anne Vinsel for "Good Grease"
Mai Wang for "The Last Place on Earth"
James M. Williams for "The Californian Cunninghams"
Juliet Williams for "Maria, Marie, M."
Meri H. Young for "Jacob at Sea"
Jody Zorgdrager for "The Bump with a Thump"