- 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 Noir2010 - Dennis Richard Murphy, "Prisoner in Paradise", in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine2011 - Mary Jane Maffini, "So Much in Common", in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine2012 - Catherine Astolfo, "What Kelly Did" 2013 - Yasuko Thanh, "Spring-blade Knife" in Floating Like The Dead2014 - Twist Phelan, "Footprints in Water" 2015 - Margaret Atwood, "Stone Mattress" 2016 - Jeremy Bates, "Black Canyon" 2017 - Susan Daly, "A Death at the Parsonage" 2018 - Catherine Astolfo, "The Outlier" 2019 - Linda L. Richards, "Terminal City" 2020 - Peter Sellers, "Closing Doors" 2021 - Marcelle Dubé, "Cold Wave, Sisters in Crime" Best Unpublished First Novel - "Unhanged Arthur" First awarded in 2007 as part of the CWC mandate to recognize and promote the careers of promising new crime writers. 2007 - Phyllis Smallman, "Margarita Nights" 2008 - D.J. McIntosh, "The Witch of Babylon" 2009 - Douglas A. Moles, "Louder" 2010 - Gloria Ferris, "The Corpse Flower" 2011 - John Jeneroux, "Better Off Dead" 2012 - Sam Wiebe, "Last of the Independents" 2013 - Coleen Steele, "Sins Revisited" 2014 - Rachel Greenaway, "Cold Girl" 2015 - Elle Wilde, "Strange Things Done" 2016 - Jayne Barnard, "When the Flood Falls" 2017 - S. J. Jennings, "The Golkonda Project" 2018 - Dianne Scott, "Destruction in Paradise" 2019 - Liv McFarlane, "The Scarlet Cross" 2020 - Liz Rachel Walker, "The Dieppe Letters" 2021 - Raymond Bazowski, "The Future" Howard Engel Award 2021 - Katrina Onstad, Stay Where I Can See YouDerrick Murdoch Award This is a special achievement award for contributions to the genre of crime and mystery writing, awarded at the discretion of the president of the Crime Writers of Canada. When first presented in 1984, it was known as the Chairman's Award; it was later renamed in honour of its first recipient, Derrick Murdoch. Since 2013, it has only been presented in years when the new biennial Grand Master Award, listed below, is not presented. 1984 - Derrick Murdoch 1985 - Tony Aspler 1986 - Margaret Millar 1987 - The CBC Drama Department 1988 - J.D. Singh and Jim Reicker 1989 - not presented 1990 - Eric Wilson 1991 - not presented 1992 - William Bankier, James Powell and Peter Sellers 1993 - not