Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine has announced the winners of their annual Readers Awards. The SMFS list members on the list this year that reported their success are:
#1 David Dean for
"Mrs. Hyde" in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: March/April 2023.
#2 Richard
Helms for “Spear Carriers” in the Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine: November/December 2023
issue.
#3 Paul Ryan
O’Connor for “Teddy’s Favorite Thing” in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine:
September/October 2023 issue.
SMFS list members won and placed third in the annual Writers’
Police Academy Golden Donut Short Story Contest. Using the photo prompt, contestants
entered stories that were exactly two hundred words. The stories are free to
read online at the WPA website.
The members that reported their success are:
Winner:
Sally Milliken with "Adam-13."
Third Place:
Pat Remick with “Cemetery Justice.”
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine has announced the winners of their annual Readers Awards. The SMFS list members on the list this year are:
#3 Anna Scotti for “Schrödinger, Cat” in the March/April
2022 issue.
#4 Karen Harrington for “Lucky Stars” in the May/June
2022 issue.
#6 David Dean for “The Wedding Funeral.”
G.M.
Malliet for ““Something Blue” in the November/December
2022 issue.
#7 Twist Phelan for “The Kindness of Strangers.”
#8 David Dean with “The King’s Ferret.”
#9 Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier with “Rise” in the March/April 2022 issue.
Wendy
Hornsby with “Cardigans.”
Josh Pachter’s
translation of “Russian for Beginners” by Dominique Bibeau in the March/April
2022 issue.
Art Taylor
with “We Are All Strangers Here” in the September/October
2022 issue.
#10 Michael Bracken and Sandra Murphy with “Sit. Stay.
Die.” in the July/August
2022 issue.
Josh
Pachter with “Their Last Bow” in the January/February
2022 issue.