Killer Nashville Magazine

Physical award in each of 19 categories, bragging rights, increased exposure, and $250 for best overall work (fiction or nonfiction), payable to the winner.

Eligible works must have been first published in English and available to a North American reading audience in either print or digital format between January 1 and December 31 in the previous calendar year. Audio books are eligible as long as they are published in the same year as the original book and is between January 1 and December 31 in the previous calendar year.

Silver Falchion Award

Please read contest details carefully before submitting.

Categories:

Best Action Adventure

Best Children's Book

Best Comedy (includes comedic P.I. and crime caper)

Best Cozy

Best Historical

Best Investigator (includes procedural, serious P.I., detective, and noir)

Best Juvenile / YA

Best Literary

Best Mainstream / Commercial

Best Mystery (includes crime fiction)

Best Nonfiction

Best Sci-fi / Fantasy

Best Short Story Collection / Anthology (awarded to individual author or collection editor)

Best Southern Gothic

Best Supernatural (includes horror, gothic, and paranormal)

Best Suspense (includes romantic suspense and psychological)

Best Thriller (includes spy, espionage, political, legal, medical)

Best Western

Best True Crime

Silver Falchion Award

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