GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

NOVEMBER 2015

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Gabe D. Herron for "Suzette"

2nd-place winner:

Sam Miller Khaikin for "A Working Theory of Stellar Collapse"

3rd-place winner:

Cady A. Vishniac for "Move"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Kate Bradley for "Primapara"
Brittany Bronson for "The Lawn Situation"
Ahsan Butt for "Turn, Struggle"
Leslie K. Campbell for "I'll Take You There"
Alan B. Dittrich for "All the Lost Things in the World"
Michael Elias for "Handler & Needham"
Amy E. Feltman for "Speculoos"
Andrew Grossmann for "College Days"
Susanna Horng for "What We Came For"
Joshua King for "Poena Cullei"
Jen Knox for "The Couple on the Roof"
Colene Lee for "My Big Amp"
Debbie Lehmann for "We Could Have Been Power Washing"
Ferris McDaniel for "Whatever It Is We're Competing For"
Kate McQuestion for "Mother Mary, Save Us All"
Alyssa A. Proujansky for "Bad Math"
Tim Raymond for "Care"
Bryce Sears for "The Bad Thing is Going to Happen"
Christopher X. Shade for "Messages From a Storm"
SJ Sindu for "Comets Unseen"
Ryan Elliott Smith for "The Noise of Youth"
Liz Tucker for "Sunday Night Movies"