Short Story Award for New Writers
Top 25 Winners and Finalists
Fall 2000

1st-place winner:
Gerard Varni for “Death’s Noisy Herald”

2nd-place winner:
C. V. Davis for “Begin with Where They Are”

3rd-place winner:
Alan McWhirter for “The Fire God”

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Dale Gregory Anderson for “Frostbite”
Elizabeth Batchelder for “The Apiarist”
Brian Booker for “Chilly Treats”
Ioanna Carlsen for “Mexican Bus”
Shelly Catterson for “Shaking Planes”
Bryan Charles for “Destroy Quincy”
Tara Jill Ciccarone for “When We Were Tired of Checkers”
Brett Coker for “Postcards from Auschwitz”
E. T. Cooper for “If Understanding You Should Fail”
Cara Davis for “Dancing with Jesus in Grove City, Pennsylvania”
Jane Delury for “The Visit”
Francis Ennyone for “Fine Times at Our House”
Jonathan Griffith for “Reference Points”
Lisa Lishman for “Wild Dogs”
Elizabeth MacLeod for “Efficacy”
Deborah Marquart for “Three-Mile Limit”
Don McMillan for “Menhirs for Hannah Marie”
Trina Ozer for “In the Dragon’s Belly”
Judy Sensibar for “Cycle Out”
Cherene Sherrard for “House at the Edge of the Sea”
Russell Valentino for “The Fall of the Wall”
Yuval Zalkow for “Questions”

Gerard Varni’s piece will be published in the Summer 2001 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

This issue will be mailed to you in June. We thank all of you for sending your stories for this competition. It was a spectacular turn-out!