2021 DERRINGER AWARD NOMINATIONS

The Short Mystery Fiction Society announced the nominations for the 2021 Derringer Awards. I will update where the stories appear when the 'official' announcement comes out.

Congratulations to all!

Flash
Outsourcing, James Blakey
Over Before It Started, Robert Mangeot
Memories of Fire, Joshua Pastor
War Words, Travis Richardson
Quitman County Ambush, Bobby Mathews

Short
That Which Is True, Jacqueline Freimor
River, Stacy Woodson
The Crossing, Kim Keeline
The Great Bedbug Incident and the Invitation of Doom, Eleanor Cawood Jones
The Homicidal Understudy, Elizabeth Elwood

Long
Chasing Diamonds, Joseph S. Walker
Lord, Spare the Bottom Feeders, Robert Mangeot
Mary Poppins Didn't Have Tattoos, Stacy Woodson
Etta at the End of the World, Joseph S. Walker
Hotelin', Sarah M. Chen

Novelette  
A Murder at Morehead Mews, G.M. Malliet
The Wretched Strangers, Matthew Wilson
The Question of the Befuddled Judge, Jeff Cohen
The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74, Art Taylor
Suicide Blonde, Brian Thornton