Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers
Top 25 Winners and Finalists
Spring 2000

1st-place winner:
Judith McClain for “In the Red Deep”

2nd-place winner:
Amalia Melis for “Immigrant Daughter”

3rd-place winner:
Joan Leegant for “Lucky in Love”

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:
Edward Belfar for “An Eminent Man”
Tom Bentley for “Flowering”
Nathan Brockman for “Fuge”
George Christian Carner for “Neptune’s Orbit”
Julie Compton for “Flying Lessons”
Frank Cossa for “Cloud Shadows”
Jeff Hagkull for “Copper-bottom Dawn”
Donal Heffernan for “Duets”
J. Pintello Kearney for “The Fish and the Harmonica”
Christiana Langenberg for “Bourbon”
Haven R. Luke for “Eat”
Peggi McCarthy for “Save Yourself”
Maureen Murray for “Triage”
Mary Otis for “Us, Them”
David Reene for “The Other Side”
Yaxue Cao Ritter for “The Executed Man”
John Paul Rollert for “How We Say Things”
Karen Sandstrom for “How Do You Die”
R. Clifton Spargo for “An Etiology of Sorrow”
Kurt Steinwand for “China”
Emily Strelow for “A Large Fry”
Jane Tracy for “God, Black Clouds, and the Palmolive Defense”

Judith McClain’s piece will be published in the Winter 2001 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.
We thank all entrants for sending their stories for this competition. It was a spectacular turn-out.