Pronzini Has a Lock on Hoch

Kevin R. Tipple brings us the news that 69-year-old California novelist Bill Pronzini--creator of the long-running Nameless Detective series--is this year’s recipient of the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award, given out by the Short Mystery Fiction Society. This commendation is of course named after prolific short-story writer Hoch, who died back in 2008.

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In addition, Lee Lofland’s blog, The Graveyard Shift, has just announced that Ann Kellett is the winner of the 2012 Golden Donut Short Story Contest for “Closure.” You can read that 2oo-word tale, along with the runners-up in this year’s competition, here.