Member Honors: Anthony Nominations

 The nominations for the 2021 Anthony Awards were announced today and there were plenty of members of the SMFS among the story categories.

Best Short Story nominees included:

“Dear Emily Etiquette,” by Barb Goffman, EQMM (Dell Magazines)

“The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74,” by Art Taylor, AHMM (Jan-Feb) (Dell Magazines)

“Elysian Fields,” by Gabriel Valjan, California Schemin’ (Wildside Press)

“The Twenty-Five Year Engagement,” by James W. Ziskin, In League with Sherlock Holmes (Pegasus Crime)

Best Anthology or Collection nominees include:

Noiryorican, by Richie Narvaez (Down & Out Books)

The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell, edited by Josh Pachter (Untreed Reads Publishing)

California Schemin,‘ edited by Art Taylor (Wildside Press)

Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic, edited by Nick Kolakowski and Steve Weddle (Polis Books)

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SMFS Anthony Award Nominees

Several SMFS Members are nominated for Anthony Awards in two categories.

Best Short Story

Barb Goffman’s “Whose Wine Is It Anyway” from the anthology, 50 Shades of Cabernet, published by Koehler Books. You can read it in full here.

Debra H. Goldstein’s “The Night They Burned Ms. Dixie’s Place from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine: May/June 2017. You can read it in full here.

Art Taylor’s “A Necessary Ingredient” from the anthology, Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, published by Down & Out Books. You can read it in full here.

Best Anthology

Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, edited by Paul D. Marks (and Andrew McAleer), published by Down & Out Books.

The Obama In heritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, edited by Gary Phillips, published by Three Rooms Press.

Those attending Bouchercon 2018 in St. Petersburg, Florida will vote on the finalist nominees. Winners will be announced at the awards presentation on Saturday, September 8, 2018.

Congratulations and good luck to all of our SMFS nominees.