2019 Edgar Award Best Short Story Winner: Art Taylor

SMFS member Art Taylor has won a 2019 Edgar Award for his short story, “English 398: Fiction Workshop” published in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: July/August 2018 issue. The Edgars were presented to the winners yesterday evening during the 73^rd gala of the Mystery Writers of America at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. The full list of winners can be found on the MWA website.

Mr Taylor has written extensively on how the story came to be. He has done so in his post on the Sluethsayers Blog last June which can be read here as well as on his “First Two Pages” post last June which can be read here.  As noted in the post here last February which provided a link to read the story, Mr. Taylor is also up for an Agatha Award.

SMFS Member Publication News: Art Taylor

SMFS list member Art Taylor’s award nominated short story, “English 398: Fiction Workshop" that appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: July/August 2018 issue is now featured on the monthly podcast by EQMM.  Read by the author, the tale also features various guest voice appearances by coworkers of the English Department of George Mason University.  You can hear the slightly longer than thirty minute read by going here.  The listing from EQMM immediately follows the relevant links below which may be interest to readers.

MWA Award Nominee News Posting on the SMFS Blog

Agatha Award Nominee News Posting on the SMFS Blog

Links to Agatha Award Finalists for Best Short Story

Currently nominated for both the MWA’s Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Malice Domestic Convention’s Agatha Award for best short story, our selection this month is by Art Taylor, who debuted in EQMM’s Department of First Stories in 1995 and has become a star in the field of the mystery and crime short story. Here he is reading “English 398: Fiction Workshop,” from the July/August 2018 EQMM. Both the author and EQMM wish to thank several staff members from the English Department at George Mason University, where Art Taylor teaches, for their assistance in this reading: Mary Baldwin (a linguist), Lisa DesRochers-Short (a poet), and Jay Patel (a fiction writer)—and the reader of the story’s final section, Madison Gaines, Class of 2021, who’s pursuing a dual concentration in fiction and poetry in Mason’s BFA Program in Creative Writing.

SMFS Member Art Taylor--2019 Edgar Award Nominee

Earlier this week, Mystery Writers of America officially announced their list of nominees for the 2019 Edgar Awards to be presented at their gala on the evening of April 25, 2019 in New York City. A complete list of all the categories and their nominees can be found at the MWA announcement page.

We of the SMFS are pleased to announce that SMFS list member Art Taylor has been nominated in the BEST SHORT STORY category for his piece, “English 398: Fiction Workshop” which appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: July/August 2018 issue. Mr. Taylor shared the inspiration behind the story in his post on the Sleuthsayers Blog last June and analyzed what he was doing by way of a post on The First Two Pages that also appeared last June. You can read the story by way of a PDF over at Mr. Taylor’s website.

The First Two Pages: “English 398: Fiction Workshop” by Art Taylor

The First Two Pages: “English 398: Fiction Workshop” by Art Taylor

SleuthSayers: Story & Structure: "English 398: Fiction Workshop"...

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