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Friday, April 26, 2019

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 73rd 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.



Monday, August 20, 2018

SMFS Member Publication News: V. S. Kemanis


SMFS list member V. S. Kemanis has informed the group that the third and final part of her series on “Adding Criminal Law and Procedure to Your Fiction” is now up at the website of the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Titled “Part III: The Courtroom--Guilty Plea and Trial” can be found here.  Part I  and Part II.

Monday, August 13, 2018

SMFS Member Publication News: V. S. Kemanis


As the group was informed just after midnight,  the second part of a series SMFS list member V. S. Kemanis is doing on “Adding Criminal Law and Procedure to Your Fiction” at the website of the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America is now up. “Part II: Stop & Frisk, Arrest, Identification Procedures, Indictment” appears here and follows “Part 1: Search and Seizure”  located  here.


Tuesday, August 7, 2018

SMFS Member Publication News: S. Kemanis


As the group was informed earlier today, SMFS list member V. S. Kemanis is doing a three part series on “Adding Criminal Law and Procedure to Your Fiction” at the website of the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. “Part 1: Search and Seizure” can be found here.

Friday, April 28, 2017

Edgar Award for Best Short Mystery

SMFS salutes author Lawrence Block on his win of the Edgar Award for Best Short Story. He won for his tale, "Autumn at the Automat" in the anthology In Sunlight or In Shadow. 

The full list of the 2017 Edgar Award Winners can be found at at the MWA website.