* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Best Short Story | Hallowed Ground | Linda Castillo | Macmillan Publishers - Minotaur Books | |
| 2024 | Best Short Story | Thriller | Heather Graham | Blackstone Publishing | Thriller Anthology |
| 2024 | Best Short Story | Miss Direction | Rob Osler | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue: September-October 2023 |
| 2024 | Best Short Story | The Rise | Ian Rankin | Amazon Publishing | Amazon Original Stories |
| 2024 | Best Short Story | Pigeon Tony's Last Stand | Lisa Scottoline | Amazon Publishing | Amazon Original Stories |
| 2023 | Best Short Story | Red Flag | Gregory Fallis | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Issue: March-April 2022 |
| 2023 | Best Short Story | Backstory | Charles John Harper | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Issue: January-February 2022 |
| 2023 | Best Short Story | Locked-In | William Burton McCormick | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Issue: January-February 2022 |
| 2023 | Best Short Story | The Amnesty Box | Tim McLoughlin | Akashic Books | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Anthology |
| 2023 | Best Short Story | First You Dream, Then You Die | Donna Moore | Titan Books | Black is the Night Anthology |
| 2022 | Best Short Story | Blindsided | Michael Bracken & James A. Hearn | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Issue: September-October 2021 |
| 2022 | Best Short Story | The Vermeer Conspiracy | V.M. Burns | Crooked Lane Books | Midnight Hour Anthology |
| 2022 | Best Short Story | Lucky Thirteen | Tracy Clark | Crooked Lane Books | Midnight Hour Anthology |
| 2022 | Best Short Story | The Road to Hana | R.T. Lawton | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Issue: May-June 2021 |
| 2022 | Best Short Story | The Locked Room Library | Gigi Pandian | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue - July-August 2021 |
| 2022 | Best Short Story | The Dark Oblivion | Cornell Woolrich | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue: January-February 2021 |
| 2021 | Best Short Story | The Summer Uncle Cat Came to Stay | Leslie Elman | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue: January-February 2020 |
| 2021 | Best Short Story | Dust, Ash, Flight | Maaza Mengiste | Akashic Books | Addis Ababa Noir |
| 2021 | Best Short Story | Etta at the End of the World | Joseph S. Walker | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Issue: May-June 2020 |
| 2021 | Best Short Story | The Twenty-Five Year Engagement | James W. Ziskin | Pegasus Books - Pegasus Crime | In League with Sherlock Holmes |
| 2020 | Best Short Story | One of These Nights | Livia Llewellyn | Akashic Books | Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers |
| 2020 | Best Short Story | The Passenger | Kirsten Tranter | Akashic Books | Sydney Noir |
| 2020 | Best Short Story | Home at Last | Sam Wiebe | Down & Out Books | Die Behind the Wheel: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan |
| 2020 | Best Short Story | Brother's Keeper | Dave Zeltserman | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue - May-June 2019 |
| 2020 | Best Short Story | Turistas | Hector Acosta | Down & Out Books | Paque Tu Lo Sepas |
| 2019 | Best Short Story | Rabid - A Mike Bowditch Short Story | Paul Doiron | Minotaur Books | |
| 2019 | Best Short Story | Paranoid Enough for Two | John Lutz | Kensington Publishing | The Honorable Traitors |
| 2019 | Best Short Story | Ancient and Modern | Val McDermid | Pegasus Books | Bloody Scotland |
| 2019 | Best Short Story | English 398: Fiction Workshop | Art Taylor | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue: July-August 2018 |
| 2019 | Best Short Story | The Sleep Tight Motel | Lisa Unger | Amazon Publishing | Dark Corners Collection |
| 2018 | Best Short Story | Spring Break | John Crowley | Akashic Books | New Haven Noir |
| 2018 | Best Short Story | Hard to Get | Jeffery Deaver | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue: July-August 2017 |
| 2018 | Best Short Story | Ace in the Hole | Eric Heidle | Akashic Books | Montana Noir |
| 2018 | Best Short Story | A Moment of Clarity at the Waffle House | Kenji Jasper | Akashic Books | Atlanta Noir |
| 2018 | Best Short Story | Chin Yong-Yun Stays at Home | S.J. Rozan | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Issue: January-February 2017 |
| 2017 | Best Short Story | Oxford Girl | Megan Abbott | Akashic Books | Missiissippi Noir |
| 2017 | Best Short Story | A Paler Shade of Death | Laura Benedict | Akashic Books | St. Louis Noir |
| 2017 | Best Short Story | Autumn at the Automat | Lawrence Block | Pegasus Books | In Sunlight or in Shadow |
| 2017 | Best Short Story | The Music Room | Stephen King | Pegasus Books | In Sunlight or in Shadow |
| 2017 | Best Short Story | The Crawl Space | Joyce Carol Oates | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue: Sept/Oct 2016 |
| 2016 | Best Short Story | The Little Men | Megan Abbott | Mysterious Bookshop | |
| 2016 | Best Short Story | On Borrowed Time | Mat Coward | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue: June 2015 |
| 2016 | Best Short Story | The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday | Peter Farrelly | Akashic Books | Providence Noir |
| 2016 | Best Short Story | Family Treasures | Shirley Jackson | Random House | Let Me Tell You |
| 2016 | Best Short Story | Obits | Stephen King | Simon & Schuster - Scribner | Bazaar of Bad Dreams |
| 2016 | Best Short Story | Every Seven Years | Denise Mina | Mysterious Bookshop | |
| 2015 | Best Short Story | 200 Feet | John Floyd | Strand Magazine | |
| 2015 | Best Short Story | What Do You Do? | Gillian Flynn | Penguin Random House - Bantam Books | Volume: Rogues |
| 2015 | Best Short Story | Red Eye | Dennis Lehane vs. Michael Connelly | Simon & Schuster | Volume: Faceoff |
| 2015 | Best Short Story | Teddy | Brian Tobin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May 2014 |
| 2015 | Best Short Story | The Snow Angel | Doug Allyn | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue: January 2014 |
| 2014 | Best Short Story | The Caxton Private Lending Library and Book Depository | John Connolly | Mysterious Bookshop | Volume: Bibliomysteries |
| 2014 | Best Short Story | So Long, Chief | Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane | The Strand | |
| 2014 | Best Short Story | The Terminal | Reed Farrel Coleman | Amazon Publishing - Thomas and Mercer | Anthology: Kwik Krimes |
| 2014 | Best Short Story | There are Roads in the Water | Trina Corey | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January 2013 |
| 2014 | Best Short Story | Where That Morning Sun Goes Down | Tim L. Williams | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August 2013 |
| 2013 | Best Short Story | Hot Sugar Blues | Steve Liskow | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company - Mulholland Books | Anthology: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance |
| 2013 | Best Short Story | Iphigenia in Aulis | Mike Carey | Penguin Group USA - Ace Books | Anthology: An Apple for the Creature |
| 2013 | Best Short Story | Still Life No. 41 | Teresa Solana | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March/April 2012 |
| 2013 | Best Short Story | The Unremarkable Heart | Karin Slaughter | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company - Mulholland Books | Anthology: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance |
| 2013 | Best Short Story | The Void it Often Brings with It | Tom Piccirilli | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November 2012 |
| 2012 | Best Short Story | The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train | Peter Turnbull | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | |
| 2012 | Best Short Story | Lord John and the Plague of Zombies | Diana Gabaldon | Penguin Group USA - Ace Books | Anthology: Down These Strange Streets |
| 2012 | Best Short Story | Marley's Revolution | John C. Boland | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | |
| 2012 | Best Short Story | The Adakian Eagle | Bradley Denton | Penguin Group USA - Ace Books | Anthology: Down These Strange Streets |
| 2012 | Best Short Story | The Case of Death and Honey | Neil Gaiman | Random House - Bantam | Anthology: A Study in Sherlock |
| 2012 | Best Short Story | Tomorrow's Dead | David Dean | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | |
| 2011 | Best Short Story | The Scent of Lilacs | Doug Allyn | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | |
| 2011 | Best Short Story | A Good Safe Place | Judith Green | Level Best Books | Anthology: Thin Ice |
| 2011 | Best Short Story | Monsieur Alice is Absent | Stephen Ross | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | |
| 2011 | Best Short Story | The Creative Writing Murders | Edmund White | Bloomsbury | Anthology: Dark End of the Street |
| 2011 | Best Short Story | The Plot | Jeffery Deaver | Tom Doherty Associates - Forge Books | Anthology: First Thrills |
| 2010 | Best Short Story | Amapola | Luis Alberto Urrea | Akashic Books | Anthology: Phoenix Noir |
| 2010 | Best Short Story | Animal Rescue | Dennis Lehane | Akashic Books | Anthology: Boston Noir |
| 2010 | Best Short Story | Digby, Attorney at Law | Jim Fusilli | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Comment: May 2009 |
| 2010 | Best Short Story | Femme Sole | Dana Cameron | Akashic Books | Anthology: Boston Noir |
| 2010 | Best Short Story | Last Fair Deal Gone Down | Ace Atkins | Busted Flush Press | Comment: Crossroad Blues |
| 2009 | Best Short Story | Skinhead Central | T. Jefferson Parker | Little, Brown and Company | Anthology: The Blue Religion |
| 2009 | Best Short Story | A Sleep Not Unlike Death | Sean Chercover | Kensington Publishing | Anthology: Hardcore Hardboiled |
| 2009 | Best Short Story | La Vie en Rose | Dominique Mainard | Akashic Books | Anthology: Paris Noir |
| 2009 | Best Short Story | Scratch a Woman | Laura Lippman | HarperCollins - William Morrow | Anthology: Hardly Knew Her |
| 2009 | Best Short Story | Skin and Bones | David Edgerley Gates | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: October 2008 |
| 2008 | Best Short Story | The Golden Gopher | Susan Straight | Akashic Books | Anthology: Los Angeles Noir |
| 2008 | Best Short Story | Blue Note | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Bleak House Books | Anthology: Chicago Blues |
| 2008 | Best Short Story | Hardly Knew Her | Laura Lippman | Harcourt, Inc. | Anthology: Dead Man's Hand |
| 2008 | Best Short Story | The Catch | Mark Ammons | Level Best Books | Anthology: Still Waters |
| 2008 | Best Short Story | Uncle | Daniel Woodrell | Bleak House Books | Anthology: A Hell of a Woman |
| 2007 | Best Short Story | The Home Front | Charles Ardai | Little, Brown | Anthology: Death Do Us Part |
| 2007 | Best Short Story | Building | S.J. Rozan | Akashic Books | Anthology: Manhattan Noir |
| 2007 | Best Short Story | Cranked | Bill Crider | Busted Flush Press | Anthology: Damn Near Dead |
| 2007 | Best Short Story | Rain | Thomas H. Cook | Akashic Books | Anthology: Manhattan Noir |
| 2006 | Best Short Story | The Catch | James W. Hall | Carroll & Graf | Anthology: Greatest Hits |
| 2006 | Best Short Story | Born Bad | Jeffery Deaver | Mysterious Press | Anthology: Dangerous Women |
| 2006 | Best Short Story | Her Lord and Master | Andrew Klavan | Mysterious Press | Anthology: Dangerous Women |
| 2006 | Best Short Story | Misdirection | Barbara Seranella | Carroll & Graf | Anthology: Greatest Hits |
| 2006 | Best Short Story | Welcome to Monroe | Daniel Walker | River City Publishing | Anthology: A Kudzu Christmas |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | Something About a Scar | Laurie Lynn Drummond | HarperCollins | Anthology: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | Adventure of the Missing Detective | Gary Lovisi | St. Martin's Minotaur | Anthology: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | Imitate the Sun | Luke Sholer | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November 2004 |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | The Book Signing | Pete Hamill | Akashic Books | Anthology: Brooklyn Noir |