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by Earl Lovelace


  SAO PAULO NOIR, (BRAZIL) edited by TONY BELLOTTO

  ST. LOUIS NOIR, edited by SCOTT PHILLIPS

  TRINIDAD NOIR: THE CLASSICS edited by EARL LOVELACE & ROBERT ANTONI

  NOIR SERIES AWARDS, PRIZES & HONORS

  Following is a list-in-progress of the various awards, prizes, and honors that Akashic Noir Series stories have either won or been short-listed for.

  Boston Noir

  Edgar Award Finalists 2010

  Dennis Lehane, “Animal Rescue”

  Dana Cameron, “Femme Sole”

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2010

  John Dufresne, “The Cross-Eyed Bear”

  Dennis Lehane, “Animal Rescue”

  Shamus Award Finalist 2010

  Brendan DuBois, “The Dark Island”

  Anthony Award Finalists 2010

  Dennis Lehane, “Animal Rescue”

  Dana Cameron, “Femme Sole”

  Macavity Award Finalist 2010

  Dana Cameron, “Femme Sole”

  Agatha Award Finalist 2009

  Dana Cameron, “Femme Sole”

  Bronx Noir

  Winner, New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association

  Book of the Year Award, Special Category 2008

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008

  S.J. Rozan, “Hothouse”

  Brooklyn Noir

  Edgar Award Finalist 2005

  Pete Hamill, “The Book Signing”

  Robert L. Fish Memorial Award Winner 2005

  Thomas Morrissey, “Can’t Catch Me”

  Shamus Award Winner 2005

  Pearl Abraham, “Hasidic Noir”

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2005

  Tim McLoughlin, “When All This Was Bay Ridge”

  Lou Manfredo, “Case Closed”

  Anthony Award Finalist 2005

  Arthur Nersesian, “Hunter/Trapper”

  Pushcart Prize Finalist 2005

  Ellen Miller, “Practicing”

  DC Noir

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2007

  Robert Andrews, “Solomon’s Alley”

  Detroit Noir

  Shamus Award Finalist 2008

  Loren D. Estleman, “Kill the Cat”

  Kansas City Noir

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013

  Nancy Pickard, “Lightbulb”

  Las Vegas Noir

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2009

  David Corbett, “Pretty Little Parasite”

  Vu Tran, “This or Any Desert”

  Lone Star Noir

  Shamus Award Finalist 2011

  Lisa Sandlin, “Phelan’s First Case”

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2011

  David Corbett & Luis Alberto Urrea, “Who Stole My Monkey?”

  Long Island Noir

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013

  Nick Mamatas, “The Shiny Car in the Night”

  Los Angeles Noir

  Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Winner 2007

  Edgar Award Winner 2008

  Susan Straight, “The Golden Gopher”

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008

  Michael Connelly, “Mulholland Dive”

  Robert Ferrigno, “The Hour When the Ship Comes In”

  Manhattan Noir

  Edgar Award Finalists 2007

  S.J. Rozan, “Building”

  Thomas H. Cook, “Rain”

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2007

  Robert Knightly, “Take the Man’s Pay”

  Miami Noir

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2007

  John Bond, “T-bird”

  New Jersey Noir

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2012

  Lou Manfredo, “Soul Anatomy”

  New Orleans Noir

  Shamus Award Finalist 2008

  James Nolan, “Open Mike”

  Paris Noir

  Edgar Award Finalist 2009

  Dominique Mainard, “La Vie en Rose”

  Philadelphia Noir

  Macavity Award Finalist 2011

  Keith Gilman, “Devil’s Pocket”

  Phoenix Noir

  Edgar Award Winner 2010

  Luis Alberto Urrea, “Amapola”

  Anthony Award Finalist 2010

  Luis Alberto Urrea, “Amapola”

  Macavity Award Finalist 2010

  Luis Alberto Urrea, “Amapola”

  Shamus Award Finalist 2010

  Gary Phillips, “Blazin’ on Broadway”

  Queens Noir

  Robert L. Fish Memorial Award Winner 2009

  Joe Guglielmelli, “Buckner’s Error”

  San Diego Noir

  Southern California Independent Booksellers Association

  Award Finalist 2011

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2012

  T. Jefferson Parker, “Vic Primeval”

  San Francisco Noir

  Macavity Award Finalist 2006

  David Corbett, “It Can Happen”

  Staten Island Noir

  Robert L. Fish Memorial Award Winner 2013

  Patricia Smith, “When They Are Done with Us”

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013

  Patricia Smith, “When They Are Done with Us”

  Toronto Noir

  Arthur Ellis Award Winner 2009

  Pasha Malla, “Filmsong”

  Arthur Ellis Award Finalist 2009

  Peter Robinson, “Walking the Dog”

  Twin Cities Noir

  Shamus Award Finalist 2007

  Bruce Rubenstein, “Smoke Got in My Eyes”

  Venice Noir

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013

  Emily St. John Mandel, “Drifter”

  Wall Street Noir

  Derringer Award Finalist 2008

  Twist Phelan, “A Trader’s Lot”

  Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008

  Stephen Rhodes, “At the Top of His Game”

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  Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the stories, excerpts, and poems in this anthology. “La Divina Pastora” by C.L.R. James was originally published in the Saturday Review, October 15, 1927, reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd., London, on behalf of the Estate of C.L.R. James, copyright © the Estate of C.L.R. James; “The Cricket Match” by Samuel Selvon was originally published in Ways of Sunlight (London, England: MacGibbon & Kee, 1957), copyright © 1957 by Samuel Selvon; “Homestead” by Eric Roach was originally published in Caribbean Quarterly 2, no. 3 (1953), copyright © 1953 by Eric Roach; “Man-man” by V.S. Naipaul was originally published in Miguel Street (London, England: André Deutsch, 1959), copyright © 1959, copyright renewed 1987 by V.S. Naipaul, used by permission of the Wylie Agency LLC; “The Quiet Peasant” by Harold Sonny Ladoo was originally published in Impulse 2, nos. 3 and 4 (1973), ed. Peter Such, copyright © 1973 by Harold Sonny Ladoo, licensed here from House of Anansi Press; “The Valley of Cocoa” by Michael Anthony was originally published in Bim 9, no. 33 (July–December 1961), copyright © 1961 by Michael Anthony; “The Schooner Flight” by Derek Walcott was originally published in The Star-Apple Kingdom (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979), copyright © 1979 by Derek Walcott; “Assam’s Iron Chest” by Willi Chen was originally published in King of the Carnival and Other Stories (London, England: Hansib, 1988), copyright © 1988 by Willi Chen; “Joebell and America” by Earl Lovelace was originally published in A Brief Conversation and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1988), copyright © 1988 by Earl Lovelace; “Hindsight” (excerpt) by Robert Antoni was originally published in Divina Trace, copyright © 1991 by Robert Antoni, published in 1992 by the Overlook Press, New York, NY, www.overlookpress.com, all rights reserved; “Town of Tears” (excerpt) by Elizabeth Nunez was originally published in Bruised Hibiscus, copyright © 2000, reprinted by permission of Seal Press, a member of the Perseus Book Group; “Uncle Zoltan” by Ismith Khan was originally published in A Day in the Country and Other Stories (Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 1994), copyright © 1994 by Ismith Khan; “Malgrétoute” by Lawrence Scott was originally published in Chelsea 46: World Literature in English, ed. Sonia Raiziss (New York: Chelsea Associates, 1987), copyright © 1987 by Lawrence Scott; “The Vagrant at the Gate” by Wayne Brown was first published in 2000, licensed here from The Scent of the Past: Stories and Remembrances (Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 2011); “Songster” by Jennifer Rahim was originally published in Small Axe 11 (March 2002), copyright © 2002 by Jennifer Rahim; “The Party” by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw was originally published in Four Taxis Facing North (Hexham, England: Flambard Press, 2007), copyright © 2007 by Elizabeth Walcott Hackshaw; “The Dragonfly’s Tale” by Sharon Millar was originally published in Small Axe 41 (July 2013), copyright © 2013 by Sharon Millar, licensed here from The Whale House and Other Stories by Sharon Millar (Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 2015); “Ghost Story” by Barbara Jenkins was originally published in Small Axe 38 (July 2012), copyright © 2012 by Barbara Jenkins, licensed here from Sic Transit Wagon and Other Stories by Barbara Jenkins (Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 2013); “The Bonnaire Silk Cotton Tree” by Shani Mootoo was originally published in The Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories, ed. Martin Munro (University of the West Indies Press, 2015), copyright © 2015 by Shani Mootoo.

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