DERRINGER AWARDS BEST MID-LENGTH SHORT STORY

2014:  Give Me a Dollar by Ray Daniel  (Winner)
Myrna! by John Bubar
Bloody Signorina by Joseph D’Agnese
Dance Man by Andrew Jetarski 
A Dangerous Life by Adam Purple 

2013:  When Duty Calls by Art Taylor   (Winner)  
The Pot Hunters by David Hagerty
A Regular Story by Peggy McFarland
Peaches by Todd Robinson
Double Wedding by Mo Walsh 

2012:  Brea’s Tale by Karen Pullen   (Winner)
A Drowning at Snow’s Cut by Art Taylor 
Facts Exhibiting Wantonness by Trina Corey 
Ballistic by Trey Dowell 
Blue Amber by William Burton McCormick 

2011: Interpretation of Murder by B. K. Stevens (Winner Tie) 
Care of the Circumcised Penis by Sean Doolittle (Winner Tie) 
Silicon Kings by Richard Helms
The Little Nogai Boy” by R.T. Lawton 
A Tour of the Tower by Christine Poulson

2010:  Famous Last Words by Doug Allyn (Winner)
Snow on Bloedkoppie by Berhard Jaumann (German to English translation by Mary Tannert)
Regarding Certain Occurrences in a Cottage at the Garden of Allah by Robert S. Levinson
A Stab in the Heart by Twist Phelan
The Shipbreaker by Mike Wiecek

2009: The Quick Brown Fox by Robert S. Levinson (Winner)
Bonnie and Clyde Caper by O’Neil De Noux
The Big Score by Chris Holm
The Art of Avarice by Darrell James
Dead Even by Frank Zafiro

2008: The Gospel According to Gordon Black by Richard Helms (Winner)
A Trader’s Lot by Twist Phalen
Devil’s Lake by John Schroeder
A Private Hanging by Herschel Cozine
Mr. McGregor’s Garden by Kate Flora
Growing Up Is for Losers by Rosemary Harris

2007:  Cranked by Bill Crider (Winner)
Eden’s Bodyguard by David Bareford
Shadow People by Rex Burns
Uncle Blinky’s Corner of the World by Robert S. Levinson
Shanks on the Prowl by Robert Lopresti  

2006:  One Step Closer by Iain Rowan (Winner) 
Best Wishes by JR Chabot
The Spare by Woody Hanstein
Johnny Cash is Dead by Jordan Harper
A Death in Ueno by Mike Wiecek   

2005: Viscery by Sandy Balzo (Winner)  
Brethren of The Sea by Joan Druett 
Freddie Swings In by David Terrenoire 
Hilly Palmer’s Last Case by Duane Swierczynski
Phillie’s Last Dance by Ray Banks  

2004: Notions of the Real World by Dorothy Rellas (Winner)  
A Mother Scorned by Michele R. Bardsley 
Big Winner by Terry Black 
Sara Morningsky by Lee Driver 
Wanda Wilcox is Trapped by Eddie Muller  

1998: Tie: The Adventurers by Barbara White-Rayczek (Winner)               Tie: L.A. Justice by Kris Neri (Winner)