Showing posts with label Silver Falchion Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silver Falchion Award. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Killer Nashville Silver Falchion and Claymore Award Finalists

Founder Clay Stafford of the Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference is pleased to announce the 2024 finalists for both the Silver Falchion & Claymore Award. The Silver Falchion Award celebrates the best books of 2023. The Claymore Award for the best first fifty pages of an unpublished manuscript at the time of submission. Winners will be announced at the Killer Nashville Awards Dinner on the final night of the conference, August 23rd, in Nashville, Tennessee. 
There are 17 categories for each award. Be sure and check them all out. I'm listing the 'Best Mystery" category for each award. Be sure and check back for the winners.

Silver Falchion Award: 17 categories.

2024 Finalists for Best Mystery Category:

 Mouse in the Box, by Lewis Allan (Stretched Studio)
 Indigo Road, by Reed Bunzel (Coffeetown Press)
 Beautiful Death, by John Deal (Dark Lake Press)
 Secrets Don’t Sink, by K.B. Jackson (Level Best)
 BeatNikki’s Café, by Renee James (Amble Press)
 The Empty Kayak, by Jodé Millman (Level Best)

2024 Claymore Awards
(for the best first 50 pages of an unpublished manuscript, play, or screenplay) 17 groups of finalists.

2024 Finalists for Best Mystery Category

 Killer Eyes, by Denis Berkfeldt
 Death of a Glades Man, by Jane Bock
 Dare to Live, by Paul Guyot
 The Healer's Curse, by John Madinger
 What They Buried, by P.J. McAvoy
 Fishing for Murder, by Mark Zeid

Thursday, August 24, 2023

SILVER FALCHION AWARD FOR BEST BOOKS OF 2022: Killer Nashville

SILVER FALCHION AWARD FOR BEST BOOKS OF 2022: Killer Nashville

Best Book of 2022 
Lynessa Layne / Target Acquired 
 
1st Runner Up Best Book of 2022 
Frank Runles / Lies People Tell: An FBI Agent’s Toolkit for Catching Liars and Cheats 

2nd Runner Up Best Book of 2022 
Rich Zahradnik / The Bone Records 

Best Action Adventure
Angela Greenman / The Child Riddler 

Best Comedy 
J. B. Manning / Richter the Mighty 

Best Cozy 
Lori Robbins / Murder in Third Position 

Best Historical 
Carmen Amato / Murder at the Galliano Club 

Best Investigator 
James L'Etoile / Dead Drop 

Best Juvenile / YA 
Elizabeth Bunce / In Myrtle Peril, a Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 

Best Literary 
Bruce Holsinger / The Displacements 

Best Mainstream / Commercial 
Katherine Faulkner / Greenwich Park 

Best Mystery 
Rich Zahradnik / The Bone Records 

Best Nonfiction 
Frank Runles / Lies People Tell: An FBI Agent's Toolkit for Catching Liars and Cheats  

Best Sci-fi / Fantasy 
Bryan Johnston / Death Warrant 

Best Short Story Collection/Anthology 
Lindy Ryan / Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga 

Best Southern Gothic 
Alexandrea Weis and Lucas Astor / River of Ashes 

Best Supernatural 
Jennifer McMahon / The Children on the Hill 

Best Suspense 
Lynessa Layne / Target Acquired 

Best Thriller 
Jeneva Rose / One of Us is Dead 

Best Western 
Terrence McCauley / Blood on the Trail

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

KILLER NASHVILLE Silver Falchion and Claymore Award Submissions


Killer Nashville
 announced that the 16th Annual Silver Falchion Award and the 14th Annual Claymore Award are now open for submission. 

The Silver Falchion Award seeks to honor the best books of 2022; submission deadline is 6/15/23. The Claymore Award seeks to recognize unpublished English-language manuscripts with elements of thriller, mystery, crime or suspense; submission deadline is 4/1/23. See links for submission details and categories.