The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) for the best detective fiction ( P. I. = Private investigator ) genre novels and short stories of the year.
4-848: The Prize is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. Starting in 2003, the Shamus Awards are sometimes (2003, 2007–2009, 2011–2016) announced during the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention , at the convention's PWA Awards Banquet. Minotaur Books, 2018 Oceanview Publishing, 2019 Oceanview Publishing, 2019 Pegasus Crime, 2021 Mulholland Books, 2022 MCD Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2018 Soho Crime, 2020 Redhook Books, 2018 James D.F. Hannah, 2019 Barbados Hall Communications, 2020 (Not awarded in 1989, 1990, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2012, 2014, 2019 and 2020) Bouchercon World Mystery Convention Bouchercon ,
8-615: The Anthony Awards for excellence in crime fiction, including: Best Novel, Best First Novel, Best Short Story, Best Critical Non-Fiction, and Best Paperback Original. People who attend are fans, authors, agents, booksellers, publishers and other people who read and enjoy mystery and crime fiction. The first one was held in Santa Monica, California in 1970. The guest of honor was Robert Bloch of Psycho fame. Registered attendees of each Bouchercon are designated as 'members', and vote at
12-657: The Anthony Boucher Memorial World Mystery Convention, is an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction . It is named in honour of writer, reviewer, and editor Anthony Boucher , and pronounced the way he pronounced his name, rhyming with "voucher". It is held annually in Autumn, each year being hosted in a different city by a different group of volunteers. The convention typically starts on Thursday and finishes on Sunday. Each year, Bouchercon nominates and votes
16-566: The annual business meeting (held during the convention) on necessary business items. Bouchercon's governing body is its standing committee, which changes year to year, being made up of people who have hosted and will host the convention, and three at large members who are elected by the membership. The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), one of
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