2026 Derringer Award Finalists - Short Mystery Fictioin Society Blog

Recognize anyone on the lists?

At his stop at the Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog Panzer discovered a post with the newly announced finalists for the SMFS Derringer Awards.

 

There are five categories for the Derringers. The categories are Best Flash Fiction, Best Short Story, Best Long Story, Best Novelette and Best Anthology.

 

The winners will be announced May 1.

 

To read the list of the finalists tootle over to 2026 Derringers Finalists 

 

 

Derringer Awards Finalists - The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog

Panzer was taking his afternoon nap when his kitty bed was violently shaken by clapping and cheering coming from the Catosphere. Hopping into the Panzermobile, our brave kitty followed all the hoopla to the Short Mystery Fiction Society site. There he found a post about the 2022 Derringer Awards finalists.

 

Now ... to finish that nap.

According to the Short Mystery Fiction Society blog the finalists for the 2022 Derringer Awards have been announced in the Flash Fiction, Short Stories, Long Stories, and Novellettes Length categories.

To read the list of finalists tootle over to Derringer Awards Finalists