A mere 30 days after publicizing its lists of finalists for the 2025 Derringer Awards, America’s Short Mystery Fiction Society brings us the winners of that competition, in five divisions.
Best Flash Story (up to 1,000 words): “Kargin the Necromancer,” by Mike McHone (Mystery Tribune, December 15, 2024)
Best Short Story (1,001-4,000 words): “The Wind Phone,” by Josh Pachter (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2024)
Best Long Story (4,001-8,000 words): “Heart of Darkness,” by Tammy Euliano (from Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House, edited by Michael Bracken and Stacy Woodson; Down & Out)
Best Novelette (8,001-20,000 words): “The Cadillac Job,” by Stacy Woodson (Chop Shop, Episode 1, edited by Michael Bracken;
Down & Out)
Best Anthology: Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology, edited by Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman (Level Short)
On top of all these, the SMFS will present its Silver Derringer for Editorial Excellence to Janet Hutchings, who recently left as the editor in chief of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Its Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement is going to short-story writer and English professor Art Taylor. And the society’s 2025 Hall of Fame designee is O. Henry (aka William Sydney Porter).
Thursday, May 01, 2025
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