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. The Anthony Awards are among the most prestigious awards in the world of mystery writers and have helped boost the careers of many recipients.[1]
| 1986 | “Lucky Penny” | New Black Mask #3 | Winner | ||
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| “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] | |
| Finalist | |||||
| “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 |