Best Crime Short Story
- 1988 - Eric Wright, "Looking for an Honest Man", in Cold Blood: Murder in Canada
- 1989 - Jas. R. Petrin, "Killer in the House", in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, December 1988
- 1990 - Josef Skvorecky, "Humbug", in The End of Lieutenant Boruvka
- 1991 - Peter Robinson, "Innocence", in Cold Blood III
- 1992 - Eric Wright, "Two in the Bush", in Christmas Stalkings
- 1993 - Nancy Kilpatrick, "Mantrap", in Murder, Mayhem, and the Macabre
- 1994 - Robert J. Sawyer, "Just Like Old Times", in On Spec, Summer 1993
- 1995 - Rosemary Aubert, "The Midnight Boat Toronto Palermo", in Cold Blood IV
- 1996 - Mary Jane Maffini, "Cotton Armour", in Ladies Killing Circle
- 1997 - Richard K. Bercuson, "Dead Run", in Storyteller, Winter 1996-97
- 1998 - Sue Pike, "Widow's Weeds", in Cottage Country Killers
- 1999 - Scott Mackay, "Last Inning", in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, February 1998
- 2000 - Matt Hughes, "One More Kill", in Blue Murder Magazine, December 1999
- 2001 - Peter Robinson, "Murder in Utopia", in Crime Through Time III
- 2002 - Mary Jane Maffini, "Sign of the Times", in Fit to Die
- 2003 - James Powell, "Bottom Walker", in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 2002
- 2004 - Gregory Ward, "Dead Wood", in Hard Boiled Love
- 2005 - Leslie Watts, "Crocodile Tears", in Revenge: A Noir Anthology
- 2006 - Rick Mofina, "Lightning Rider", in Murder in Vegas
- 2007 - Dennis Richard Murphy, "Fuzzy Wuzzy", in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, August 2006
- 2008 - Leslie Watts, "Turners", in Kingston Whig-Standard, July 7, 2007
- 2009 - Pasha Malla, "Filmsong", in Toronto Noir
- 2010 - Dennis Richard Murphy, "Prisoner in Paradise", in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
- 2011 - Mary Jane Maffini, "So Much in Common", in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
- 2012 - Catherine Astolfo, "What Kelly Did"
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