Thursday, April 1, 2010

The Derringer Nominees

The Short Mystery Fiction Society has announced the finalists for their annual Derringer Awards. A huge congratulations to all the nominees and the zines they were published in. Hooray for short stories!!

We've put our dancing slippers on once again. So wonderful to see Anita Page's story from the Toys for Tots Christmas anthology make the list!! And BTAP with two more stories nominated for awards!! Let the Snoopy Dancing commence!

FLASH

"And Here's To You, Mrs. Edwardson," by Hamilton Waymire
Published in the webzine *Big Pulp*

"Awake" by David Dean
Published in EQMM

"Gutterball" by Stephen D. Rogers
Published in Woman's World Magazine

"The Right Track" by R.T. Lawton
Published in Woman's World Magazine

"Unplanned" by Libby Cudmore
Published in Thrillers, Killers 'n' Chillers

SHORT

"Identity Theft" by Robert Weibezahl
Published in Beat to a Pulp

"The Biography of Stoop the Thief" by Steven Torres
Published in Uncage Me!

"The Hard Sell" by Jay Stringer
Published in Beat to a Pulp

"The Right to Remain Silent" by Debbi Mack
Published in Back Alley Webzine

"Twas the Night" by Anita Page
Published in The Gift of Murder

LONG

"A Stab in the Heart" by Twist Phelan
Published in EQMM

"Famous Last Words" by Doug Allyn
Published in EQMM

"Regarding Certain Occurrences in a Cottage at the Garden of Allah" by Robert S. Levinsos
Published in AHMM

"Snow of Bloedkoppie" by Berhard Jaumann (translated from the German by Mary Tannert)Published in EQMM

"The Shipbreaker" by Mike Wiecek
Published in EQMM

NOVELETTE

"Adjuncts Anonymous" by B.K. Stevens
Published in EQMM

"Julius Katz" by Dave Zeltserman
Published in EQMM

"The Last Drop" by R.W. Kerrigan
Published in EQMM

"The Pirate's Debt" by Toni L.P. Kelner
Published in EQMM

"Uncle Brick and Jimmy Kills" by Allan Leverone
Published in Mysterical-E

4 comments:

David Cranmer said...

Congrats to Robert and Jay for making BEAT to a PULP look so good. This has been a helluva week and Elaine and I are on top of the world!

And Sandra, you shocked the monkey before his first cup of coffee this morning.

Paul D Brazill said...

Some top writers there. I remember the Libby cudmore & Jay Stringer stories very well.

sandra seamans said...

Betcha don't even need coffee after news like that, David :)

Lots of good writers on the list, Paul. I wouldn't have wanted to be one of the judges, that's for sure!

Anita Page said...

Thanks so much for the mention, Sandra. I'm honored to be in such good company, and very pleased that the anthology is receiving this recognition.