The Anthony Award for Best Short Story, established in 1986, is an annual award presented as part of the Anthony Awards on behalf of Mystery Writers of America. [1]
| 1986 | “Lucky Penny” | New Black Mask #3 | Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| “Ride the Lightning” | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Eight Mile and Dequindre” | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Vandals” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| 1987 | Mean Streets | Winner | |||
| “Scalplock” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Body Count” | Mean Streets | Finalist | |||
| 1988 | “Breakfast Television” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Winner | ||
| “Turn Away” | Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction | Finalist | |||
| “Soft Monkey” | Mystery Scene Reader #1 | Finalist | |||
| Matter of Crime #1 | Finalist | ||||
| “Scrap” | Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction | Finalist | |||
| 1990 | “Afraid All the Time” | Sisters in Crime | Winner | ||
| Mistletoe Mysteries | Finalist | ||||
| Sisters in Crime | Finalist | ||||
| “No Safety” | Sisters in Crime | Finalist | |||
| 1991 | Sisters in Crime 2 | Winner | |||
| Sisters in Crime 3 | Finalist | ||||
| “Say You're Sorry” | Sisters in Crime 3 | Finalist | |||
| “Remains to Be Seen” | Mummy Stories | Finalist | |||
| Sisters in Crime 2 | Finalist | ||||
| 1992 | “Lucky Dip” | Winner | |||
| “Last Rites” | Sisters in Crime 4 | Finalist | |||
| “Deborah's Judgment” | Finalist | ||||
| “Wolf Winter” | Sisters in Crime 4 | Finalist | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| “Nine Sons” | Sisters in Crime 4 | Finalist | |||
| 1993 | “Cold Turkey” | Sisters in Crime 5 | Winner | ||
| “Candles in the Rain” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| “One Hit Wonder” | Sisters in Crime 5 | Finalist | |||
| Sisters in Crime 5 | Finalist | ||||
| 1994 | “Checkout” | Malice Domestic 2 | Winner | ||
| Malice Domestic 2 | Finalist | ||||
| “Kim's Game” | Malice Domestic 2 | Finalist | |||
| “Crow's Feat” | Constable New Crimes 2 | Finalist | |||
| 1995 | Royal Crimes | Winner | |||
| “One of Those Days, One of Those Nights” | Crime Yellow | Finalist | |||
| London Noir | Finalist | ||||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| 1996 | “And Pray Nobody Sees You” | Spooks, Spies & Private Eyes | Winner | ||
| “How I Found a Cat, Lost True Love, and Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” | Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation | Finalist | |||
| Malice Domestic 4 | Finalist | ||||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| “Rule of Law” | Malice Domestic 4 | Finalist | |||
| 1997 | “Accidents Will Happen” | Malice Domestic 5 | Winner | ||
| Playboy | Finalist | ||||
| “Bugged” | Malice Domestic 5 | Finalist | |||
| “Luminarias Make it Christmas-y” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| 1998 | “One Bag of Coconuts” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Winner | ||
| Vengeance Is Hers | Winner | ||||
| New Mystery | Finalist | ||||
| “Paperboxing Art” | New Mystery | Finalist | |||
| “Ways to Kill a Cat” | Malice Domestic 6 | Finalist | |||
| 1999 | “Of Course You Know that Chocolate Is a Vegetable?” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Winner | ||
| Malice Domestic 7 | Finalist | ||||
| “Two Bits” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| Malice Domestic 7 | Finalist | ||||
| MSCMM | Finalist | ||||
| 2000 | “Noir Lite” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Winner | ||
| Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| “At The Hop” | Till Death Do Us Part | Finalist | |||
| “Triangle” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Paleta Man” | Irreconcilable Differences | Finalist | |||
| 2001 | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Winner | |||
| “Don't Go Upstaris” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Missing in Action” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| Unholy Orders | Finalist | ||||
| “Widow's Peak” | Unholy Orders | Finalist | |||
| 2002 | “Chocolate Moose” | Death Dines at 8:30 | Winner | ||
| “Virgo in Sapphires” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Bitter Waters” | Criminal Kabbalah | Finalist | |||
| “Double-Crossing Delancy” | Mystery Street | Finalist | |||
| “My Bonnie Lies...” | Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers | Finalist | |||
| 2003 | “Too Many Cooks” | Much Ado About Murder | Winner | ||
| Measures of Poison | Finalist | ||||
| “To Live and Die in Midland, Texas” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Murder In The Land Of Wawat” | Finalist | ||||
| “Bible Belt” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| 2004 | “Doppelganger” | Blood On Their Hands | Winner | ||
| “Wanda Wilcox Is Trapped” | Plots With Guns | Finalist | |||
| “Red Meat” | Blood On Their Hands | Finalist | |||
| “Munchies” | Hardbroiled | Finalist | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| 2005 | “Wedding Knife” | Chesapeake Crimes | Winner | ||
| “Hunter Trapper” | Brooklyn Noir | Finalist | |||
| “Voodoo” | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “It's Crackers to Slip a Rozzer the Dropsey in Snide” | Small Crimes | Finalist | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| 2006 | “Misdirection” | Greatest Hits | Winner | ||
| “Killer Blonde” | Drop-Dead Blonde | Finalist | |||
| “House Rules” | Murder in Vegas | Finalist | |||
| “Driven To Distraction” | Chesapeake Crimes I | Finalist | |||
| “There Is No Crime On Easter Island” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| 2007 | “My Father's Secret” | Crimespree Magazine | Winner | ||
| “Cranked” | Damn Near Dead | Finalist | |||
| Sugarplums and Scandal | Finalist | ||||
| “After the Fall” | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Policy” | Damn Near Dead | Finalist | |||
| “Sleeping with the Plush” | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| 2008 | “Hardly Knew Her” | Dead Man's Hand | Winner | ||
| “Uncle” | Finalist | ||||
| “Please Watch Your Step” | Finalist | ||||
| “Dear Dr. Watson” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “How Stella Got her Grave Back” | Many Bloody Returns | Finalist | |||
| 2009 | Hardcore Hardboiled | Winner | [3] | ||
| Wolfsbane & Mistletoe | Finalist | ||||
| “Killing Time” | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| “Scratch a Woman” | Hardly Knew Her | Finalist | |||
| “Skull and Cross Examination” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| 2010 | “On the House” | Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers | Winner | [4] | |
| “Last Fair Deal Gone Down” | Crossroad Blues | Finalist | |||
| “Femme Sole” | Boston Noir | Finalist | |||
| “Animal Rescue” | Boston Noir | Finalist | |||
| “Amapola” | Phoenix Noir | Finalist | |||
| 2011 | “Swing Shift” | by Moonlight | Winner | ||
| Needle | Finalist | [5] | |||
| “Scent of Lilacs” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “So Much in Common” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Homeless” | Mystery Montage | Finalist | |||
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| 2012 | “Disarming” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Winner | ||
| “Truth and Consequences” | Mystery Times Ten | Finalist | |||
| “Palace by the Lake” | Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology | Finalist | |||
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| MWA Presents The Rich and The Dead | Finalist | ||||
| “Happine$$” | MWA Presents The Rich and The Dead | Finalist | |||
| 2013 | “Mischief in Mesopotamia” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Winner | ||
| Crimes: This Job is Murder | Finalist | ||||
| MWA Presents: Vengeance | Finalist | ||||
| “Kept in the Dark” | Best New England Crime Stories: Blood Moon | Finalist | |||
| “Peaches” | Grift | Finalist | |||
| 2014 | Blibiomysteries, The Mysterious Bookshop | Winner | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| “Dead End” | Untreed Reads | Finalist | |||
| “Annie and the Grateful Dead” | Finalist | ||||
| “Incident on the 405” | Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble | Finalist | |||
| 2015 | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Winner | |||
| Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays | Finalist | ||||
| “Honeymoon Sweet” | Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014 | Finalist | |||
| “Of Dogs & Deceit” | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Howling at the Moon” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| 2016 | Winner | ||||
| “Feliz Navidead” | Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule: Holiday Tales of Crime for People on the Naughty List | Finalist | |||
| “Old Hands” | Dark City Lights | Finalist | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| “Don't Fear the Ripper” | Protectors 2: Heroes | Finalist | |||
| “Quack and Dwight” | Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds | Finalist | |||
| 2017 | “Oxford Girl” | Mississippi Noir | Winner | ||
| “Parallel Play” | Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning | Finalist | |||
| “Queen of the Dogs” | 44 Caliber Funk: Tales of Crime, Soul and Payback | Finalist | |||
| “Gary's Got A Boner” | Waiting To Be Forgotten: Stories of Crime and Heartbreak, Inspired by the Replacements | Finalist | |||
| “Autumn at the Automat” | In Sunlight or Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper | Finalist | |||
| 2018 | “My Side of the Matter” | Killing Malmon | Winner | [6] | |
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| “Whose Wine Is It Anyway” | 50 Shades of Cabernet | Finalist | |||
| Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| “God's Gonna Cut You Down” | Just to Watch Them Die: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash | Finalist | |||
| Charlaine Harris Presents Malice Domestic 12: Mystery Most Historical | Finalist | ||||
| 2019 | Tough Magazine | Winner | [7] [8] | ||
| “English 398: Fiction Workshop” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Bug Appétit” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Cold Beer No Flies” | Florida Happens | Finalist | |||
| Florida Happens | Finalist | ||||
| 2020 | Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas!: Stories to Benefit the People of Puerto Rico | Winner | [9] | ||
| “Better Days” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Hard Return” | Crime Travel | Finalist | |||
| “Turistas” | Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas!: Stories to Benefit the People of Puerto Rico | Finalist | |||
| “Unforgiven” | Murder-a-Go-Go's: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of the Go-Go's | Finalist | |||
| 2021 | “90 Miles” | Both Sides: Stories from the Border | Winner | [10] [11] [12] | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| “Dear Emily Etiquette” | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| “Elysian Fields” | California Schemin’: The 2020 Bouchercon Anthology | Finalist | |||
| In League with Sherlock Holmes | Finalist | ||||
| 2022 | “Not My Cross to Bear” | Down & Out Books | Winner | [13] [14] | |
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| “Burnt Ends” | Finalist | ||||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| “Doc's at Midnight” | Finalist | ||||
| “Lucky Thirteen” | Midnight Hour | Finalist | |||
| Midnight Hour | Finalist | ||||
| 2023 | “Beauty and the Beyotch” | Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine | Winner | ||
| Deadly Nightshade: Best New England Crime Stories 2022 | Finalist | [15] | |||
| Vautrin Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| “Still Crazy After All These Years” | Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon | Finalist | |||
| “C.O.D.” | Low Down Dirty Vote Volume 3: The Color of My Vote | Finalist |