GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Toby Wallis for "The Sudden End of Everything"

2nd-place winner:

L.E. Rodia for "Always Arriving"

3rd-place winner:

Josh S. Randall for "Pump Head"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Claire Akebrand for "Salil"
Noah Bogdonoff for "Indoor Animals"
Kyle A. Ellingson for "Chicken of the Year"
Tim Erwin for "The Sparks Fly Upward"
Nicholas A. Finch for "Off-Peak Return from London (Waterloo Terminals) to Whitchurch (Hants)"
Roberta H. George for "Some Men Can't Help It"
Brandon Haffner for "Niyah"
Zhaojing Huang for "Ten Belated Springs"
Doug Kiklowicz for "The Quest Your Father Started"
Steven M. Koteff for "I'm the Patient"
Laurel Lathrop for "Michael Dukakis Tells Us His Plan for America"
Colene Lee for "My Big Amp"
Su-Yee Lin for "A Flock, a Siege, a Murmuration"
Yiming Ma for "Swimmer of Yangtze"
John A. Maloney for "Window Unit"
Terry Mergenthal for "Afterlife"
Lauren H. Moran for "Okay, Okay, Okay."
Aysegul Savas for "Kyrgyz Summer"
Eric Schlich for "Quantum Convention"
Liz Solms for "Different Air"
Taymour Soomro for "When You Are Hiding from What It Means to Be a Person"
John Woods for "Dear Lazarus"