GLIMMER TRAIN'S
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

R. Cross for "Glioblastoma"

2nd-place winner:

Scott Gloden for "The Birds of Basra"

3rd-place winner:

Wesley Straton for "Earthquake Whisky"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Nina Alonso for "Letter to Australia"
Pamela Diamond for "The Knowledge of Nightingales"
Rachael Fowler for "A Lost Flutter"
Rune Froseth for "The End of the Year as I Knew It"
David Glekel for "Godsister"
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry for "Generation Perestroika"
Ben Hasskamp for "We Don't Ever Fully End Up Becoming Ourselves"
Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi for "El Royale"
Gabriel Jarman for "But in Battalions"
Raki Kopernik for "The Things You Left"
Brian Ma for "They Aren't Human"
Cassidy McFadzean for "Bigger and Gentler"
Andrea McLaughlin for "Little Pete"
Ryan Molloy for "A Thing I Could Not Recognize"
Lauren Erin O'Brien for "No Horns, Just Sharp Bones"
Terrance O'Connor for "The Naked Thing"
Meredith Spitzmiller for "Daughter Anonymous"
Andrew Stancek for "Tell Me Another Story"
Morgan Thomas for "Expectation of Cooper Hill"
Amy Walker for "The Whiteness of It"
Andrew Wiener for "Wound"
Tyler Womack for "The Hospital Show"