GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Maxime Kawawa-Beaudan for "Waiting for Fireworks"

2nd-place winner:

Kristen Hamelin Tracey for "A New World"

3rd-place winner:

Oliver Kammeyer for "They'll Fix That in Turkey"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Gemma Barry for "The Men Here Aren't My Husband"
David Connor for "The Tornado Is in a Seltzer Bottle in the Kitchen"
Lisa Cupolo for "How I Became a Banker"
Timothy DeLizza for "I Cannot Help You With This"
Thomas Dodson for "All at Sea"
Kate Doyle for "Speculate Forever"
Catherine Elcik for "We Own the Jetty"
Roberta George for "Ordinary Angels"
Sasha Grafit for "SHIVAs"
Andy Havens for "The Corner of the Ocean"
Jacob Kose for "Life Underground"
Rebekkah LaBlue for "Ward C"
Steve Lambert for "Phillip"
Heather Levien for "Referral"
Scott Mashlan for "Expressions of Love"
Cara Nelissen for "Everything Is Disappearing All the Time"
Nate Pillman for "Good Will"
Anna Pollock for "This Is How I Died"
Katherine Sharpe for "Uninhabited"
Anna Suszynski for "Crayfish Tales"
Itoro Udofia for "Running"
Christopher Witherspoon for "A Letter from a Dying Man"