Short Story Award for New Writers
Top 25 Winners and Finalists
Spring 2001

1st-place winner:
R. Clifton Spargo for “A History of Minor Trespasses”

2nd-place winner:
Greg Downs for “Spit Baths”

3rd-place winner:
Gail Reitano for “The Gothic Beekeeper”

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order: Sean Eric Appel for “The Signature of Oblivion”
Ted Bajek for “Last Night at the Fair”
Michelle Brockway for “Mistakes Were Made”
Katherine Cox Chenard for “The Sailboat”
Shannon Cowan for “The History of the Italian Renaissance”
Amber Dermont for “The Order”
Jennifer Cody Epstein for “A Guided Tour”
Julia Fierro for “The Girl Who Walked on Water”
Bayard Godsave for “The Heart of Bob’s Beast”
Jan Hill for “Morphoso”
Rene Houtrides for “Failight”
Marie Huston for “How Will We Bury Cousin Dub?”
Nalini Jones for “Bara Sahib”
Megan Kelly for “Jewel Weber Simpson, 1965”
Ian MacKenzie for “Drown the Girl”
Timothy Maher for “Iris Hawthorn”
Cindy O’Brien for “The Saving of Daddy”
Michael Prask for “Who Can Never Come Home”
Midge Raymond for “The Day the Dogs Returned to Earth”
Heidi Shayla for “Company”
Yelena Silver for “Leopold Kessler”
Roger Yepsen for “Big Road”

R. Clifton Spargo’s piece will be published in the Winter 2002 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

This issue will be mailed to you in December.

We thank all of you for sending your stories for this competition. It was a very fine batch of work.