GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

MAY/JUNE 2018

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Victoria Alejandra Garayalde for "American Dream"

2nd-place winner:

Jenzo DuQue for "How to Harbor an Illegal"

3rd-place winner:

Sena Moon for "Sugar"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Ava Arsaga for "New Sugar"
Diane Billeaud for "Sweet Litter"
Jayne Blankenship for "Frances Jeanne"
Chelsea Bowlby for "Chiara"
Richard Carey for "The Age of Dinosaurs"
Edward Chaney for "Anointed"
Thomas Cook for "Midnight Impala"
David Fitzpatrick for "Egg"
Scott Gloden for "The Great American Everything"
Theo Greenblatt for "Junior"
Ruth Ivo for "Lovely Nice"
TJ Kennedy for "Everything Strange at the Town by the Bay"
Doug Kiklowicz for "Causa Sui"
Dina Kleiner for "Yang Energy"
Christian Lansing for "Good to Be Hurt"
Brenna Lemieux for "The Year We Lived"
Scott Mashlan for "Mercy"
Lisa Ortiz for "El Padrino"
Zack Schlosberg for "Flesh Depression"
Rebekah Skochinski for "The Rainbow Men"
Hema Surendranathan for "At Home"
Melanie Todd for "A Simple Pin"