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Essential information for Ellery Queenโ€™s Mystery Magazine fans.

2025 Robert L. Fish Memorial Award Short Story Nominees

EQMM is proud to celebrate five short stories published in EQMM in 2024 that have been nominated for the 2025 Robert L. Fish Memorial Award. Read more

2023 Readers Award Winners

What stood out most about the Readers Award ballots returned to us for 2023 was the number of comments accompanying the votes. Weโ€™re happy to report that the vast majority of the feedback was favorable, even inspiring to us, for nothing pleases us more than knowing EQMMโ€™s readers have enjoyed the yearโ€™s selections. Your choices this year ran the gamut of the genre, from an historical homage to a crime classic to a heart-stopping short short dealing with a very contemporary crisisโ€”with a thoroughly engaging tale of a scam with unexpected consequences in between. READ MORE

Something Is Going to Happen Blog

Check out the blog! Each week an EQMM author, critic, or scholar of the mystery gives readers insights into mystery and crime fiction.

Podcasts

Readings and dramatizations of stories from the Worldโ€™s Leading Mystery Magazine. Listen here.

Stranger Than Fiction

A preview of Dean Jobbโ€™s upcoming columns in each bi-monthly EQMM, with full text available freeโ€”and exclusivelyโ€”here on our site! 

EQMM Web Only Stories

In 2016, in honor of EQMMโ€™s 75th anniversary, Columbia University presented a symposium featuring some of the most distinguished figures in the world of mystery and crime fiction. Watch the video or listen to the podcasts to learn more about this storied magazine.

Archives

Our archive includes recent Jury Box and Blog Bytes columns that originally appeared in Ellery Queenโ€™s Mystery Magazine. View them here.

Index

The past yearโ€™s annual index, listed alphabetically by author.

75 Years of EQMM

From time to time a story with visual elements is best experienced via the Web. Find some here.

Writerโ€™s Guidelines

Essential information for Queen authors. Read this.