Announced Saturday, February 1, 2025 by the Short Mystery Fiction Society. In all there were 251 submissions by 172 people for 56 titles. I am so grateful for this incredible honor.

February 1, 2025:  The Derringer Award for Best Anthology 2025 finalists are:

Devil’s Snare: Best New England Crime Stories 2024 edited by Susan Oleksiw, Ang Pompano, Leslie Wheeler

• Friend of the Devil: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Grateful Dead edited by Josh Pachter
• Larceny & Last Chances: 22 Stories of Mystery & Suspense edited by Judy Penz Sheluk
• Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology edited by Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman
• New York State of Crime: Murder New York Style 6 edited by D.M. Barr and Joseph R.G. De Marco
• The 13th Letter edited by Donna CarrickVoting will be held from April 1, 2025, to April 29, 2025, at the same time as the voting for the other competitive Derringers. As with those categories, voting will be via a poll on the SMFS groups.io site, with each member who joined prior to January 1, 2025, allowed one vote.