Short Mystery Fiction Society: 2023 Derringer Award Winners

Since 1998, the Short Mystery Fiction Society has awarded the annual Derringers—named after the popular pocket pistol—to outstanding published stories. The Winners of the 2023 Derringer Awards for works published in 2022.

FLASH FICTION
Karen Harrington for “Acknowledgments.” (Guilty Crime Story Magazine online flash fiction, April 2022) 

SHORT STORY
Melissa Yi for “My Two-Legs.” (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: September/October 2022)
 
LONG STORY
Bobby Mathews for “Negative Tilt.” (Rock and a Hard Place issue 7)
 
NOVELETTE
Adam Meyer for Two Shrimp Tacos and a .22 Ruger by Adam Meyer (Guns & Tacos, Down & Out Books) 
 
EDWARD D. HOCH MEMORIAL GOLDEN DERRINGER FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Martin Edwards
 
HALL OF FAME
No Award this year