Fiction

BOOKS:

ANTHOLOGIES:

  • “Loose Strands” in A Dark Thread (forthcoming, Mack Books)
  • “All Tomorrow’s Parties” in Chesapeake Crimes: Invitation to Murder (Wildside Press, 2020)
  • “Both Sides Now” in The Best of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell (Untreed Reads, 2020)
  • “A Close Shave” in Swamp Killers: A Novel-in-Stories (Down & Out Books, 2020)
  • “Hard Return” in Crime Travel (Wildside Press, 2019): finalist, 2020 Anthony Award for Best Short Story
  • “A Necessary Ingredient” in Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea (Down & Out Books, 2017): finalist, 2017 Agatha Award for Best Short Story; finalist, 2018 Anthony Award for Best Short Story; finalist, 2018 Macavity Award for Best Short Story.
  • “Rearview Mirror” (reprinted from On the Road with Del & Louise: A Novel in Stories) in The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016)
  • “Parallel Play,” in Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning (Wildside Press, 2016): winner, 2016 Agatha Award for Best Short Story; winner, 2017 Macavity Award for Best Short Story; finalist, 2017 Anthony Award for Best Short Story; finalist, 2017 Thriller Award for Best Short Story
  • “Premonition” in Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays (Wildside Press, 2014): finalist, 2014 Agatha Awards
  • “Rearview Mirror” (reprinted from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine) in The Crooked Road, Volume 3: Ellery Queen Presents Stories of Grifters, Gangsters, Hit Men, and Other Career Crooks (Penny Publications, 2013)
  • “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” (reprinted from PANK) in 2012 Press 53 Open Awards, first place, flash fiction category (Press 53, 2012)
  • “When Duty Calls” in Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder (Wildside Press, 2012; also available as an e-book here): finalist, 2013 Macavity Awards for Best Short Story; finalist, 2012 Agatha Awards for Best Short Story; winner, 2013 Derringer Award for Best Long Story
  • “Murder on the Orient Express” (reprinted from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine) in The Mystery Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Mystery Stories (Wildside Press, 2011)
  • “The Blanketing Snow” in One Paycheck Away (Main Street Rag Press, 2003), republished in Shotgun Honey, March 4, 2016

MAGAZINES/JOURNALS:

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine

  • “The Boy Detective and the Summer of ’74” (forthcoming)

Aries One

  • “Awful Words and Awful Thoughts,” 1995
  • “Raking,” 1993

Barrelhouse

  • “Blue Plate Special” (Crime Issue), January 2012

Black Cat Mystery Magazine

  • “Fairy Tales,” Winter 2017-2018

Burst

  • “Tell-All,” Summer 2007

Cities and Roads

  • “The Hunters,” Fall 1998

Crime Syndicate Magazine

  • “Restoration,” premiere issue, January 2016

Down & Out: The Magazine

  • “Sunday Morning, Saturday Night,” Vol. 1, Issue 3, Spring 2018

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

  • “Better Days,” May/June 2019: winner, Macavity Award for Best Short Story, 2020; finalist, 2020 Anthony Award for Best Short Story; finalist 2019 Agatha Award for Best Short Story
  • “English 398: Fiction Workshop—Notes from Class & A Partial Draft By Brittany Wallace, Plus Feedback, Conference & More,” July/August 2018: winner, 2019 Edgar Award for Best Short Story; winner, 2019 Macavity Award for Best Short Story; finalist, 2018 Agatha Award for Best Short Story; finalist, 2019 Anthony Award for Best Short Story
  • “The Great Detective Reflects,” November 2016
  • “Commission,” May 2015
  • “The Odds Are Against Us,” November 2014: winner, 2014 Agatha Award for Best Short Story; winner, 2015 Anthony Award for Best Short Story; finalist, 2015 Macavity Award for Best Short Story
  • “Ithaca 37,” September/October 2013
  • “The Care and Feeding of Houseplants,” March/April 2013: winner, 2013 Agatha Award for Best Short Story; finalist, 2014 Anthony Awards for Best Short Story; winner, 2014 Macavity Award for Best Short Story; top ten, EQMM’s 2013 Readers Choice Awards
  • “A Drowning at Snow’s Cut,” May 2011: winner, 2012 Derringer Award for Best Long Story
  • “Rearview Mirror,” March/April 2010: winner, 2011 Derringer Award for Best Novelette
  • “A Voice From the Past,” August 2009: honorable mention, 2010 Best American Mystery Stories
  • “An Internal Complaint,” June 2007
  • “Murder on the Orient Express,” December 1995

Fiction Weekly

  • “Here for You,” April 2009

Gargoyle

  • “Precision,” Issue 61, Summer 2014: honorable mention, 2015 Best American Mystery Stories

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

Lifeboat

  • “Pointing the Finger,” 2003

Lone Wolf Review

  • “Mrs. Prentiss Goes to Bed,” 1998

Mysterical-E

Needle: A Magazine of Noir

  • “The White Rose of Memphis,” Fall 2011

The News and Observer

  • “Of Tides and Time,” March 31, 2002
  • “Pictures of an Afternoon,” “The Chameleon” and “Souvenir,” February 18, 2001

North American Review

  • “Visions and Revisions,” Summer 2004; finalist, Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize

PANK

  • “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” Crime Issue, September 2011: named a Notable Story of 2011 by storySouth; first place, flash fiction category, 2012 Press 53 Open Awards; finalist, 2013 Spinetingler Award for Best Short Story on the Web

Plots With Guns

  • “Locked Out,” Fall 2011

Prick of the Spindle

The Rambler

  • “Shrimp & Grits,” January-February 2009

Redux

SmokeLong Quarterly

So To Speak

  • “Advanced Formulas,” Summer 2004: second place, fiction contest

Spout

  •  “Out in the Woods,” 1994

Wellspring

  • “A Killing,” 1996
  • “Playing Games,” 1994
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