Derringer Award

The Derringer Award was launched in 1998 and is the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s annual award honoring excellence in short mystery fiction of varying lengths. The awards were created in 1997 and named Derringer after the palm-sized pocket handgun, chosen as a metaphor for a short Mystery or Crime story. It honours outstanding published mystery and crime stories up to 20,000 words, as well as those people who have greatly advanced or supported the short story form.

Derringer Award

The Derringer Award was launched in 1998 and is the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s annual award honoring excellence in short mystery fiction of varying lengths. The awards were created in 1997 and named Derringer after the palm-sized pocket handgun, chosen as a metaphor for a short Mystery or Crime story. It honours outstanding published mystery and crime stories up to 20,000 words, as well as those people who have greatly advanced or supported the short story form.