* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Best Short Story | The Reluctant Detective | Michael Lewin | Mysterious Press | Anthology: The Eyes Have It |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | The New Girlfriend | Ruth Rendell | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '83 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | Big Boy, Little Boy | Simon Brett | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '83 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | Graffiti | Stanley Ellin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '83 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | Puerto Rican Blues | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: April '83 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | The Anderson Boy | Joseph Hansen | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '83 |
| 1983 | Best Short Story | There Are No Snakes in Ireland | Frederick Forsyth | Viking | Anthology: No Comebacks |
| 1983 | Best Short Story | A Decent Price for a Painting | James Holding | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '82 |
| 1983 | Best Short Story | All the Heroes Are Dead | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '82 |
| 1983 | Best Short Story | Tall Tommy and the Millionaire | R.R. Rafferty | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '82 |
| 1982 | Best Short Story | The Absence of Emily | Jack Ritchie | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '81 |
| 1982 | Best Short Story | A Token of Appreciation | Donald Olson | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '81 |
| 1982 | Best Short Story | Mousie | Robert Twohy | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '81 |
| 1982 | Best Short Story | Seeds of Murder | Nan Hamilton | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '81 |
| 1982 | Best Short Story | The Miracle Day | Ernest Savage | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: February '81 |
| 1981 | Best Short Story | Horn Man | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '80 |
| 1981 | Best Short Story | The Choirboy | William Bankier | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '80 |
| 1981 | Best Short Story | The Most Dangerous Man Alive | Edward D. Hoch | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '80 |
| 1981 | Best Short Story | Until You Are Dead | John Lutz | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '80 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | Armed and Dangerous | Geoffrey Norman | Esquire | Volume: March '79 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | Scrimshaw | Brian Garfield | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '79 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | The Boiler | Julian Symons | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '79 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | The Imperial Ice House | Paul Theroux | Atlantic Monthly | Volume: April '79 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | Used In Evidence | Frederick Forsyth | Playboy | Volume: December '79 |
| 1979 | Best Short Story | The Cloud Beneath The Eaves | Barbara Owens | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '78 |
| 1979 | Best Short Story | Going Backward | David Ely | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '78 |
| 1979 | Best Short Story | Strangers in the Fog | Bill Pronzini | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '78 |
| 1979 | Best Short Story | The Closed Door | Thomas Walsh | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '78 |
| 1979 | Best Short Story | This Is Death | Donald E. Westlake | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '78 |
| 1978 | Best Short Story | Chance After Chance | Thomas Walsh | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '77 |
| 1978 | Best Short Story | Jode's Last Hunt | Brian Garfield | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '77 |
| 1978 | Best Short Story | The Johore Murders | Paul Theroux | Atlantic Monthly Press | Volume: March '77 |
| 1978 | Best Short Story | The Last Rendezvous | Jean Backus | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '77 |
| 1978 | Best Short Story | The Problem of Li T'ang | Geoffrey Bush | Atlantic Monthly Press | Volume: August '77 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Like a Terrible Scream | Etta Revesz | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Crazy Old Lady | Avram Davidson | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Lavender Lady | Barbara Callahan | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: April '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Nobody Tells Me Anything | Jack Ritchie | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | People Don't Do Such Things | Ruth Rendell | Doubleday | Anthology: The Fallen Curtain |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | The Jail | Jesse Hill Ford | Playboy | Volume: March '75 |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | Night Crawlers | Joyce Harrington | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '75 |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | Old Friends | Dorothy Salisbury Davis | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September, '75 |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | The Fall of the Coin | Ruth Rendell | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '75 |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | The Many-Flavored Crime | Jack Ritchie | Mystery Digest Magazine | Volume: December '75 |
| 1975 | Best Short Story | The Fallen Curtain | Ruth Rendell | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '74 |
| 1975 | Best Short Story | A Night Out with the Boys | Elsin Ann Gardner | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: February '74 |
| 1975 | Best Short Story | Cabin in the Hollow | Joyce Harrington | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '74 |
| 1975 | Best Short Story | Screams and Echoes | Donald Olson | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '74 |
| 1975 | Best Short Story | The Game | Thomasina Weber | Random House | Anthology: Killers of the Mind |
| 1975 | Best Short Story | The Light in the Cottage | David Ely | Playboy | Volume: October '74 |
| 1974 | Best Short Story | The Whimper of Whipped Dogs | Harlan Ellison | Thomas M. Disch | Anthology: Bad Moon Rising |
| 1974 | Best Short Story | Do with Me What You Will | Joyce Carol Oates | Playboy | Volume: June '73 |
| 1974 | Best Short Story | Fifty Years After | Anthony Gilbert | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '73 |
| 1974 | Best Short Story | The Ghosts at Iron River | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | Doubleday | Anthology: Men & Malice |
| 1974 | Best Short Story | The O'Bannon Blarney File | Joe Gores | Doubleday | Anthology: Men & Malice |
| 1973 | Best Short Story | The Purple Shroud | Joyce Harrington | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '72 |
| 1973 | Best Short Story | Celestine | George Bradshaw | Ladies' Home Journal | Volume: October '72 |
| 1973 | Best Short Story | Frightened Lady | C.B. Gilford | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '72 |
| 1973 | Best Short Story | Hijack | Robert L. Fish | Playboy | Volume: August '72 |
| 1973 | Best Short Story | Island of Bright Birds | John Christopher | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: February '72 |
| 1972 | Best Short Story | Moonlight Gardener | Robert L. Fish | Argosy | Volume: December '71 |
| 1972 | Best Short Story | My Daughter is Dead | Pauline C. Smith | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '71 |
| 1972 | Best Short Story | Sardinian Incident | Evan Hunter | Playboy | Volume: October '71 |
| 1972 | Best Short Story | The Spivvleton Mystery | Katherine Anne Porter | Ladies' Home Journal | Volume: August '71 |
| 1971 | Best Short Story | In The Forests of Riga the Beasts Are Very Wild Indeed | Margaret Finn Brown | McCall's | Volume: July '70 |
| 1971 | Best Short Story | Door to a Different World | Anthony Gilbert | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '70 |
| 1971 | Best Short Story | Miss Paisley on a Diet | John Peirce | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: February '70 |
| 1970 | Best Short Story | Goodbye, Pops | Joe Gores | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '69 |
| 1970 | Best Short Story | Death's Door | Robert McNear | Playboy | Volume: March '69 |
| 1970 | Best Short Story | Double Entry | Robert L. Fish | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '69 |
| 1970 | Best Short Story | Poison in the Cup | Christianna Brand | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: February '69 |
| 1970 | Best Short Story | Promise of Oranges | Duveen Polk | Good Housekeeping | Volume: February '69 |
| 1969 | Best Short Story | The Man Who Fooled the World | Warner Law | Saturday Evening Post | Volume: August 24, 1968 |
| 1969 | Best Short Story | Crooked Bone | Gerald Kersh | Saturday Evening Post | Volume: August 10, 1968 |
| 1969 | Best Short Story | Moment of Power | P.D. James | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '68 |
| 1969 | Best Short Story | Success of a Mission | William Arden | Argosy | Volume: April '68 |
| 1969 | Best Short Story | The Last Bottle in the World | Stanley Ellin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: February '68 |
| 1968 | Best Short Story | The Oblong Room | Edward D. Hoch | The Saint | Volume: July '67 |
| 1968 | Best Short Story | Dare I Weep? Dare I Mourn? | John le Carre | Saturday Evening Post | Volume: January 28 '67 |
| 1968 | Best Short Story | The Salad Maker | Robert McNear | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '67 |
| 1968 | Best Short Story | Twist for Twist | Christianna Brand | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '67 |
| 1967 | Best Short Story | The Chosen One | Rhys Davies | The New Yorker | Volume: June 4, 1966 |
| 1967 | Best Short Story | Master of the Hounds | Algis Budrys | Saturday Evening Post | Volume: August 27 '66 |
| 1967 | Best Short Story | The Hochmann Miniatures | Robert L. Fish | Argosy | Volume: March '66 |
| 1967 | Best Short Story | The Splintered Monday | Charlotte Armstrong | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '66 |
| 1966 | Best Short Story | The Possibility of Evil | Shirley Jackson | Saturday Evening Post | Volume: December 18, 1965 |
| 1966 | Best Short Story | Foxer | Brian Cleeve | Saturday Evening Post | Volume: December 18, 1965 |
| 1966 | Best Short Story | The Case for Miss Peacock | Charlotte Armstrong | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: February '65 |
| 1966 | Best Short Story | Who Walks Behind | Holly Roth | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '65 |
| 1965 | Best Short Story | H as in Homicide | Lawrence Treat | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '64 |
| 1965 | Best Short Story | A Solilokquy in Tongues | William Wiser | Cosmopolitan | Volume: May '64 |
| 1965 | Best Short Story | The Purple is Everything | Dorothy Salisbury Davis | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '64 |
| 1964 | Best Short Story | Man Gehorcht | Leslie Ann Brownrigg | Story Magazine | Volume: January-February '63 |
| 1964 | Best Short Story | The Ballad of Jesse Neighbors | William Humphrey | Esquire | Volume: September '63 |
| 1964 | Best Short Story | The Crime of Ezechiele Coen | Stanley Ellin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '63 |
| 1963 | Best Short Story | The Sailing Club | David Ely | Cosmopolitan | Volume: October '62 |
| 1963 | Best Short Story | An Order | Carl Erik Soya | Story Magazine | Volume: October '62 |
| 1963 | Best Short Story | The Terrapin | Patricia Highsmith | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '62 |
| 1962 | Best Short Story | Affair at Lahore Cantonment | Avram Davidson | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '61 |
| 1962 | Best Short Story | Ellery Queen 1962 Anthology | Ellery Queen | Davis Publications | Volume: '61 |