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Awards and Accolades

2020

Winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Hugh Holton Award for the unpublished novel You Make Yourself Another.

Cited on Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Annual Readers List for the short story "A Drive-by on Chalmers Road?" 

2021

Anthony Award nominee as part of the anthology Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression, edited by SA Cosby which included the story "Lesson of the Lamp."

2023

Cited on Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's  Annual Readers List for the story "Carver (and) [Company]."

2024

A reprint of "Carver (and) [Company" included in the anthology Twisted Voices: Stories from Ellery Queen.

The short story "The Last Ruined Evening," originally published in Rock and a Hard Place magazine in 2023, cited as a Distinguished Story in the anthology Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024.

2025

Won the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Derringer Award for Best Flash Fiction for "Kargin the Necromancer," originally published by Mystery Tribune (Dec. 2024).

MIKE MCHONE

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