{"id":3060,"date":"2009-11-30T05:58:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T10:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2009-11-30T05:58:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T10:58:54","slug":"short-mystery-fiction-society-2009-derringer-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/short-mystery-fiction-society-2009-derringer-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Mystery Fiction Society 2009 Derringer Awards:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to all of those nominated AND to those who won! The Short Mystery Fiction Society announced the winners of the <strong>2009 Derringer Awards<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009 Derringer Award Best\u00a0Flash Story<\/strong> (1,000 Words or Less):<br \/>\nNo Flowers for Stacey by Ruth McCarty\u00a0\u00a0 (Tied Winner)<br \/>\nNo Place Like Home by Dee Stuart\u00a0\u00a0 (Tied Winner)<br \/>\nA Killing Season by J.F. Benedetto<br \/>\nBlack Pearls by James C. Clar<br \/>\nRainy Day Fund by J.K. Cummins<br \/>\nIncident in Itawamba by Gary Hoffman<br \/>\nThis Bird has Flown by BV Lawson<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009 Derringer Award Best Short Story<\/strong> (1,001 &#8211; 4,000 Words):<br \/>\nThe Cost of Doing Business by Michael Penncavage\u00a0(Winner)<br \/>\nIndependence Day by Allan Leverone<br \/>\nRegrets, I\u2019ve Had a Few by Allan Leverone<br \/>\nTaste for It by Sophie Littlefield<br \/>\nStalkers by Lew Stowe<br \/>\nWishing on Whores by John Weagly<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009 Derringer Award Best Long Story<\/strong>\u00a0(4,001 &#8211; 8,000 Words):<br \/>\nThe Quick Brown Fox by Robert S. Levinson\u00a0(Winner)<br \/>\nBonnie and Clyde Caper by O\u2019Neil De Noux<br \/>\nThe Big Score by Chris Holm<br \/>\nThe Art of Avarice by Darrell James<br \/>\nDead Even by Frank Zafiro<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009 Derringer Award Best Novelette<\/strong>\u00a0(8,001 &#8211; 17,500 Words):<br \/>\nToo Wise by O\u2019Neil De Noux\u00a0(Winner)<br \/>\nHaven\u2019t Seen You Since the Funeral by Ernest B &amp; Alice A. Brown<br \/>\nVegetable Matters by Terry W. Ervin II<br \/>\nJack Best and the Line in the Sand by Steve Olley<br \/>\nPanic on Portage Path by Dick Stodghill<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009 Recipient of the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Clark Howard<\/p>\n<p>This will be the last post about mystery book awards for a little while. (I have gotten so far behind on the 2009 award postings.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2666Back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Mystery-Book-Awards.html\">Mystery Book Awards<\/a> page\u2666<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to all of those nominated AND to those who won! The Short Mystery Fiction Society announced the winners of the 2009 Derringer Awards: 2009 Derringer Award Best\u00a0Flash Story (1,000 Words or Less): No Flowers for Stacey by Ruth McCarty\u00a0\u00a0 (Tied Winner) No Place Like Home by Dee Stuart\u00a0\u00a0 (Tied Winner) A Killing Season by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-awards","8":"entry","9":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-Nm","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}