GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017

Honorable Mentions, listed in alphabetical order:

Sakena Abedin for "Ashok"
Benjamin L. Abtan for "Have I Told You Enough How Much I Love You?"
Amanda R. Adams for "Whatever Doesn't Kill You"
Quinn Adikes for "The Men Fell Like Rain"
Tudor Alexander for "Somewhere in the City"
Emma Arett for "Gin Head"
Katherine B. Arthaud for "My Trip to the City"
Geer Austin for "Running Away"
Jan Baross for "You Can't See My Brother from Space"
Peter G. Beckstrom for "The Geology of Loss"
Kirk Beeler for "The Awakening"
Gila K. Berryman for "My Double Dutch Girl"
Chaya Bhuvaneswar for "Shell Game"
Gwenda Blair for "Waiting Room"
Stacey E. Bryan for "Best Work"
Nora M. Burghardt for "Noticing I Am Growing Up"
Charles W. Burton for "The War Letters"
Olivia C. Buzzacco for "The Year of the Snake"
Mike Campbell for "Genius on the Bus"
Michael J. Coene for "Buttonwood"
Anna Contrell for "Letters from My Deathbed"
Thomas M. Corwin for "The Art of Dying"
Laura Joyce Davis for "The Bridge Between Us"
Helen E. de Búrca for "Best friend"
Caroline de Lacvivier for "Houdini Had a Brother"
Jośe de Piérola for "Liberty"
Arthur Delaney for "Generation Shame"
A.G. Dumas for "God Will Turn Eleven On Her Next Birthday"
Elisabeth Edelman for "Sometime Around Midnight"
Wendy L. Elliot for "Mendocino"
Deac Etherington for "The Big Waitress"
Maria T. Gallina for "Coronada"
Dianne Gallo for "Seeds"
Lynn O. Geri for "Splattered Lives"
Doug K. German for "South of 18"
Brent C. Glays for "War Pig"
Ben I. Goldman for "The Women Upstairs"
Amy L. Goodman-Bide for "Leave"
Annabel E. Graham for "Lucky Teeth"
Carina Graham for "Junior Year"
Justin M. Green for "Post-Death Depression Syndrome"
Vickie L. Guillot for "A Train Going Nowhere"
Lana Habash for "Amal (Hope)"
Lora J. Hilty for "One Night With Val"
Joanna L. Horton for "That Way"
Alissa Johnson for "Everything Is Fine"
Danny Judge for "Palmyra (About a Girl)"
Sue Y. Kim for "Blossom"
Michelle Lyn King for "Hurricane Party by Michelle Lyn King"
Laurence Klinger for "Idyll"
Anna Ko for "Cycles"
Ronald Kovach for "Easterly"
Richard S. Kram for "The Crack in the Wall That Leads to the Center of the World"
Nathalie Kramer for "Lucky"
KF Lee for "Lessons"
Joshua A. Levy for "Speed Dating"
Molly J. Likovich for "Orange Soda, Anti-Depressants"
Nicholas C. Lovett for "Floridian Diaspora"
Marylee MacDonald for "Pigs-In-A-Blanket"
Andrew MacDonald for "Vindicating the Elder Staden"
Joshua J. Mackin for "Parable of the Plover"
Abby Maguire for "Cherry Baby"
J. Bret Maney for "My Baby"
Ed Maples for "Night of the Ghost"
William R. Marcy for "They Don't Samba in Boyle's Funeral Parlor"
Susana Martins for "The Same, but Different"
Philip G. McCumskey for "Frozen"
Leo N. Miller for "Life Goes On"
Elizabeth G. Molumphy for "Endurance"
Ari Moskowitz for "My Father's Dying Town"
Rajiv S. Mote for "Living with Bees"
Stephen P. Murphy for "Calo and the Magic People"
Amanda Nazario for "How Is Life"
Melanie C. Nead for "The American"
Eileen M. O'Connor for "The Magic Telescope"
Joshua D. Peck for "Etiam Doloris"
Jennifer Perrine for "Out of Order"
Simone R. Person for "Baby Prince"
Brandon Pettit for "These Lives of Clouds"
Maegan C. Poland for "Landline"
Andy S. Pollock for "The Song of Anthony"
Nicolas L. Poynter for "The Odd Behavior of Light in Lima Peru"
Alison Preston for "The Survivalist"
Christina L. Quintana for "Caroline + John"
Linda A. Ravden for "69 Brighton Drive"
Laura J. Redford for "A North Missouri Funeral"
Rahel Saadya for "Dream of a Second Marriage"
Aliza Sajjad for "We Have Enough Chaos As Is"
Kristine San Mateo for "The Vampires of Van Cross Beach"
Catherine Sbeglia for "Stella"
Benjamin Schaefer for "Zomnbi"
Rennac Schroeter for "Chokehold"
Ian A. Seiter for "Whatever It Is That Awaits"
Amanda F. Shaffer for "Floatitis"
Beth Sherman for "Steam"
Joseph C. Smith for "At the Conflagration"
Jessica E. Smith for "Intake"
Taymour Soomro for "Philosophy of the Foot"
Neeshant Srivastava for "Dry Bone"
Hillary Stringer for "We Who Were Living"
Morgan H. Thomas for "Children on the Bridge"
Geri Ulrey for "Afternoon, with Girls"
Anne Vinsel for "Lost Heart"
Cady Vishniac for "Girls Needed $200/HR Weekends and Nights"
Lee Waxenberg for "Talking to Birds"
Ben D. Werner for "Trees"
Matt Whelihan for "A Painter's Secret"
J. White for "Different Ways to Say the Same Thing"
Robert E. Williams for "The Girl from Bryn Mawr"
Mary L. Winsor for "It Goes Without Saying"
Kate Wisel for "Frankie"
Elaina R. Wood for "Good Boy"
Theodore V. Yurevitch for "A Little Apocalypse"
Michael L. Zaken for "Defects"
Agatha E. Zarzycki for "The Catcher"
Norman A. Zelaya for "Would It Be So Bad If Something Happened Between Us"
Wendy Zierler for "Close Your Eyes"