* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Best Short Story | The Widow of Slane | Terence Faherty | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March/April 2004 |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | The Maids | G. Miki Hayden | Berkley Prime Crime | Anthology: Blood on Their Hands |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | Aces and Eights | David Edgerley Gates | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: December 2003 |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | Bet on Red | Jeff Abbott | NAL-Penguin | Anthology: High Stakes |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | Black Heart & Cabin Girl | Shelley Costa | Berkley Prime Crime | Anthology: Blood on Their Hands |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | Cowboy Grace | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Golden Gryphon | Anthology: The Silver Gryphon |
| 2003 | Best Short Story | Mexican Gatsby | Raymond Steiber | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March |
| 2003 | Best Short Story | Angel of Wrath | Joyce Carol Oates | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June |
| 2003 | Best Short Story | Rumpole and the Primrose Path | John Mortimer | The Strand | |
| 2003 | Best Short Story | The Murder Ballads | Doug Allyn | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March |
| 2003 | Best Short Story | To Live and Die in Midland, Texas | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: Sept-October |
| 2002 | Best Short Story | Double-Crossing Delancy | S.J. Rozan | Private Eye Writer's of America/Mystery Street/Penguin Putnam/Signet | |
| 2002 | Best Short Story | If the Glove Fits | Michael Lewin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: Sept-Oct |
| 2002 | Best Short Story | The Abbey Ghosts | Jan Burke | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Series: January |
| 2002 | Best Short Story | The Horrible Senseless Murders of Two Elderly Women | Michael Collins | Fedora: Private Eyes and Tough Guys--Wildside Press | |
| 2002 | Best Short Story | Virgo in Sapphires | Margaret Maron | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: December |
| 2001 | Best Short Story | Missing in Action | Peter Robinson | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: November |
| 2001 | Best Short Story | A Candle for Christmas | Reginald Hill | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: January |
| 2001 | Best Short Story | Delta Double-Deal | Noreen Ayres | Comment: editor-Mary Higgins Clark; Anthology: The Night Awakens-MWA Anthology | |
| 2001 | Best Short Story | Spinning | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: July |
| 2001 | Best Short Story | Twelve Little Buggers | Mat Coward | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: January |
| 2000 | Best Short Story | Heroes | Anne Perry | Delacorte Press | Comment: edited by Otto Penzler; Anthology: Murder and Obsession |
| 2000 | Best Short Story | Crack | James W. Hall | Delacorte Press | Comment: edited by Otto Penzler; Anthology: Murder and Obsession |
| 2000 | Best Short Story | Paleta Man | Laurie R. King | HarperCollins | Comment: edited by Lia Matera; Anthology: Irreconcilable Differences |
| 2000 | Best Short Story | Snow | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Signet | Comment: edited by Robert J. Randisi; Volume: III; Anthology: First Cases |
| 2000 | Best Short Story | Triangle | Jeffery Deaver | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: March |
| 1999 | Best Short Story | Poachers | Tom Franklin | The Texas Review | Series: Fall/Winter '98 |
| 1999 | Best Short Story | For Jeff | Perry Michael Smith | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: Feb '98 |
| 1999 | Best Short Story | Looking for David | Lawrence Block | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: Feb '98 |
| 1999 | Best Short Story | Sacrifice | L.L. Thrasher | Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine | Series: Summer/Fall '98 |
| 1999 | Best Short Story | The Halfway Woman | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: Feb '98 |
| 1998 | Best Short Story | Keller on the Spot | Lawrence Block | Playboy | Volume: November |
| 1998 | Best Short Story | Find Miriam | Stuart M. Kaminsky | New Mystery Magazine | Series: Summer |
| 1998 | Best Short Story | The Kneeling Soldier | Jeffery Deaver | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: March |
| 1998 | Best Short Story | The Man Who Beat the System | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Signet | Series: Funny Bones |
| 1998 | Best Short Story | Ways to Kill a Cat | Simon Brett | Pocket Books | Series: Malice Domestic 6 |
| 1997 | Best Short Story | Red Clay | Michael Malone | Delacorte Press | Anthology: Murder for Love |
| 1997 | Best Short Story | Hoops | S.J. Rozan | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: January |
| 1997 | Best Short Story | Kiss The Sky | James Grady | Vintage | Anthology: Unusual Suspects |
| 1997 | Best Short Story | My Murder | David Corn | Vintage | Anthology: Unusual Suspects |
| 1997 | Best Short Story | The Dark Snow | Brendan DuBois | Playboy | Series: November |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | The Judge's Boy | Jean B Cooper | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '95 |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | A Plain and Honest Death | Bill Pomidor | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: Sept. '95 |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | Death in a Small Town | Larry Beinhart | New Mystery | Volume: Spring '95 |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | Rule of Law | K.K. Beck | Pocket Books | Anthology: Malice Domestic |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | When Your Breath Freezes | Kathleen Dougherty | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: Sept. '95 |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | The Dancing Bear | Doug Allyn | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '94 |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | An Eye for a Tooth | Justin Scott | Longmeadow Press | Anthology: Justice in Manhattan |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | The Gentleman in the Lake | Robert Barnard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '94 |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | The Necessary Brother | Brendan DuBois | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '94 |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | The Tennis Court | Brenda Melton Burnham | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '94 |
| 1994 | Best Short Story | Keller's Therapy | Lawrence Block | Playboy | Volume: May '93 |
| 1994 | Best Short Story | Enduring as Dust | Bruce Holland Rogers | Donald I. Fine | Anthology: Danger in D.C |
| 1994 | Best Short Story | McIntyre's Donald | Joseph Hansen | Viking | Anthology: Bohannon's Country: Mystery Stories |
| 1994 | Best Short Story | Mefisto in Onyx | Harlan Ellison | Omni | Volume: October '93 |
| 1994 | Best Short Story | The Ghost Show' | Doug Allyn | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '93 |
| 1993 | Best Short Story | Mary, Mary, Shut the Door | Benjamin M. Schutz | Doubleday | Anthology: Deadly Allies |
| 1993 | Best Short Story | Candles in the Rain | Doug Allyn | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '92 |
| 1993 | Best Short Story | Howler | Jo Bannister | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '92 |
| 1993 | Best Short Story | Louise | Max Allan Collins | Doubleday | Anthology: Deadly Allies |
| 1993 | Best Short Story | One Hit Wonder | Gabrielle Kraft | Berkley | Anthology: Sisters in Crime 5 |
| 1992 | Best Short Story | Nine Sons | Wendy Hornsby | Berkley | Anthology: Sisters in Crime 4 |
| 1992 | Best Short Story | A Blow for Freedom | Lawrence Block | Playboy | Volume: October '91 |
| 1992 | Best Short Story | Dreaming in Black and White | Susan Schwartz | Tor | Anthology: Psycho-Paths |
| 1992 | Best Short Story | Sleeper | Doug Allyn | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '91 |
| 1992 | Best Short Story | Spasmo | Liza Cody | Mysterious Press | Anthology: A Classic English Crime |
| 1991 | Best Short Story | Elvis Lives | Lynne Barrett | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '90 |
| 1991 | Best Short Story | A Poison That Leaves No Trace | Sue Grafton | Berkley | Anthology: Sisters in Crime 2 |
| 1991 | Best Short Story | Answers to Soldiers | Lawrence Block | Playboy | Volume: June '90 |
| 1991 | Best Short Story | Challenge the Widow-Maker | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '90 |
| 1991 | Best Short Story | Prisoners | Ed Gorman | Carroll & Graf | Anthology: New Crimes |
| 1990 | Best Short Story | Too Many Crooks | Donald E. Westlake | Playboy | Volume: August '89 |
| 1990 | Best Short Story | Afraid All theTime | Nancy Pickard | Berkley | Anthology: Sisters in Crime |
| 1990 | Best Short Story | For Loyal Service | Stephen Wasylyk | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '89 |
| 1990 | Best Short Story | Ted Bundy's Father | Ruth Graviros | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '89 |
| 1990 | Best Short Story | The Girl and the Gator | Robert Halsted | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '89 |
| 1989 | Best Short Story | Flicks | Bill Crenshaw | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '88 |
| 1989 | Best Short Story | Bridey's Caller | Judith O'Neill | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '88 |
| 1989 | Best Short Story | Deja Vu | Doug Allyn | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '88 |
| 1989 | Best Short Story | Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern | Bill Pronzini | Mysterious Press | Anthology: An Eye For Justice |
| 1989 | Best Short Story | The Alley | Stephen Wasylyk | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '88 |
| 1988 | Best Short Story | Soft Monkey | Harlan Ellison | Fedora, Inc. | Anthology: Mystery Scene Reader |
| 1988 | Best Short Story | Breakfast Television | Robert Barnard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '87 |
| 1988 | Best Short Story | Mr. Felix | Paula Gosling | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '87 |
| 1988 | Best Short Story | Stroke of Genius | George Baxt | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '87 |
| 1988 | Best Short Story | The Au Pair Girl | Joyce Harrington | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | Anthology: Matter of Crime #1 |
| 1987 | Best Short Story | Rain in Pinton County | Robert Sampson | New Black Mask | Volume: May '86 |
| 1987 | Best Short Story | Body Count | Wayne D. Dundee | Mysterious Press | Anthology: Mean Streets |
| 1987 | Best Short Story | Christmas Cop | Thomas Adcock | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '86 |
| 1987 | Best Short Story | Driven | Brendan DuBois | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '86 |
| 1987 | Best Short Story | The Puddle Diver | Doug Allyn | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '86 |
| 1986 | Best Short Story | Ride the Lightning | John Lutz | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '85 |
| 1986 | Best Short Story | There Goes Ravelaar | Janwillem Van de Wetering | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '85 |
| 1986 | Best Short Story | Trouble in Paradise | Arthur Lyons | New Black Mask | Volume: January '85 |
| 1986 | Best Short Story | What's in a Name? | Robert Barnard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '85 |
| 1986 | Best Short Story | Yellow One-Eyed Cat | Robert Twohy | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '85 |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | By Dawn's Early Light | Lawrence Block | Playboy | Volume: August '84 |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | After I'm Gone | Donald E. Westlake | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '84 |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | Breakfast at Ojai | Robert Twohy | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '84 |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | Season Pass | Chet Williamson | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '84 |