2020 Public Safety Writers Association Winners: Vinnie Hansen and Ellen Kirschman

In addition to the previously announced award news regarding Victoria Weisfeld, the SMFS would like to announce and congratulate our members Vinnie Hansen and Ellen Kirschman who also won  2020 Public Safety Writers Association Awards.

Vinnie Hansen’s short story, “The Last Word” from the 2019 anthology, Fault Lines: Stories by Northern California Crime Writers took second place in the “Short Story, Published” category.

Vinnie Hansen also took third place in the same category with “Room and Board” from the 2019 anthology, Fishy Business: The Fifth Guppy Anthology.

In the “Fiction Book, Unpublished” category, Ellen Kirschman reports that she took second place for The Answer To His Prayers (the fourth book of the Dr. Dot Mystery Series).

Ellen Kirschman also received a Honorable Mention in the “Short Story, Unpublished” category for “Don’t I Know You.”  


The full list of the Public Safety Writers Association Award winners can be found here. 

2020 Public Safety Writers Association Winner: Victoria Weisfeld

SMFS list member Vicki Weisfeld’s short story, “Who They Are Now” took first place in the in the “Short Story, Published” category of the 2020 Public Safety Writers Association Awards.  Her story appears in the 2019 published anthology, Best Laid Plans: 21 Stories of Mystery And Suspense that was edited by SMFS list member Judy Penz Sheluk and published by her Superior Shores Press inprint. For more information on the Public Safety Writers Association Awards, including a list of winners, go to their website here. For more information on the anthology that contains the winning short story, please go to our SMFS news post for it here.