Edgar Allan Poe Award - Short Story (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

2023

Red Flag
(Winner)
Gregory Fallis

The Amnesty Box
(Nominee)
Tim McLoughlin

Backstory
(Nominee)
Charles John Harper

First You Dream, Then You Die
(Nominee)
Donna Moore

Locked-In
(Nominee)
William Burton McCormick

2022

The Road to Hana
(Winner)
R.T. Lawton

Blindsided
(Nominee)
Michael Bracken

The Dark Oblivion
(Nominee)
Cornell Woolrich

The Locked Room Library
(Nominee)
Gigi Pandian

Lucky Thirteen
(Nominee)
Tracy Clark

The Vermeer Conspiracy
(Nominee)
V.M. Burns

2021

Addis Ababa Noir
(Winner)
Maaza Mengiste

Etta at the End of the World
(Nominee)
Joseph S. Walker

The Summer Uncle Cat Came to Stay
(Nominee)
Leslie Elman

The 25 Year Engagement
(Nominee)
James W. Ziskin
in In League with Sherlock Holmes

2019

Rabid: A Novella
(Nominee)
Paul Doiron

2016

The Little Men
(Nominee)
Megan Abbott

Every Seven Years
(Nominee)
Denise Mina

2013

Hot Sugar Blues
(Nominee)
Steve Liskow
in Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance

The Unremarkable Heart
(Nominee)
Karin Slaughter
in Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance

Iphigenia in Aulis
(Nominee)
Mike Carey
in An Apple for the Creature

2012

The Adakian Eagle
(Nominee)
Bradley Denton
in Down These Strange Streets

Lord John and the Plague of Zombies
(Nominee)
Diana Gabaldon
in Down These Strange Streets

2011

The Plot
(Nominee)
Jeffery Deaver
in First Thrills

2009

Skinhead Central
(Winner)
T. Jefferson Parker
in The Blue Religion

Scratch a Woman
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

2008

Hardly Knew Her
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

2004

Cowboy Grace
(Nominee)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch

2001

Spinning
(Nominee)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch

1999

Poachers
(Winner)
Tom Franklin

Looking for David
(Nominee)
Lawrence Block

1998

Ways to Kill a Cat
(Nominee)
Simon Brett
in Malice Domestic 6

1997

Red Clay
(Winner)
Michael Malone
in Murder for Love

1996

Rule of Law
(Nominee)
K.K. Beck
in Malice Domestic 4

1994

Mefisto in Onyx
(Nominee)
Harlan Ellison
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1992

Nine Sons
(Winner)
Wendy Hornsby
in Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries

1982

The Absence of Emily
(Winner)
Jack Ritchie
in Master's Choice: Volume II

1981

Until You Are Dead
(Nominee)
John Lutz

1976

The Fall of the Coin
(Nominee)
Ruth Rendell

1975

The Fallen Curtain
(Winner)
Ruth Rendell

1974

Do With Me What You Will
(Nominee)
Joyce Carol Oates

1972

Moonlight Gardner
(Winner)
Robert L. Fish

1967

The Hochmann Miniatures
(Nominee)
Robert L. Fish

1960

The Landlady
(Winner)
Roald Dahl
in Murderous Schemes

1954

Someone Like You
(Winner)
Roald Dahl

1952

Fancies and Goodnights
(Winner)
John Collier
  • / Horror
  • Buy Buy

The Memoirs of Solar Pons
(Nominee)
August Derleth

Award Categories

Critical/Biographical

First Novel

Juvenile

Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Motion Picture

Novel

Paperback Original

Short Story

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

The Robert L Fish Memorial Award

Young Adult

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

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