2018 Darrell Awards Winners
Winners for the 2018 Darrell Awards have been announced:
- WINNER: Land of Wolves, TJ Turner (Oceanview)
- First Runner-Up: Wild Hunt, Nick Rowan (self-published)
- Finalist: Seek and Destroy, William C. Dietz (Ace)
Best Midsouth Novella
- WINNER: A Night at the Quay, William Alan Webb (Dingbat)
- First Runner-Up: “Luminaria”, John Hornor Jacobs (Apex 3/7/17)
Best Midsouth Young Adult Work
- WINNER: Coney Island Book of the Dead, Sheila Martin (Narrioch)
Best Midsouth Young Short Story
- WINNER: “From Hair to Eternity”, Phyllis Appleby (Malice in Memphis: Elmwood: Stories to Die For)
- First Runner-Up: “Black Like Them”, Troy L. Wiggins (Fireside 1/17)
- Finalist: “A Very Worthy Human Being”, Richard Powell (Malice in Memphis: Elmwood: Stories to Die For)
Robin Burks is the 2018 inductee to the Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame “for Outstanding or Extraordinary Midsouth Fiction for authors who have a body of work that appeared in prior years.”
The Darrell Awards are given to works that “use the greater Memphis area as a significant setting and/or the author must be a resident of the greater Memphis area when the work appears.” Winners, runners-up, and finalists were announced March 10, 2018 during MidSouthCon at the Memphis Hilton in Memphis TN.
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