“Granddad Swam,” also known as “the story about the homemade swimming pool,” earned an honorable mention in Glimmer Train Stories‘ August 2013 Short Story Award for New Writers contest. This means, they tell me, that it was among the top 5% of more than a thousand entries: close, but no cigar.
That’s okay, though, because Oyez Review is going to publish “Granddad Swam” in their Spring 2014 issue, anyway.
Jess Bowers 