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Nominate Your Favorites!

For Doylean Honors, to be
Presented on January 11, 2024

Nominate excellent works in any (or all) of four award categories:

Fiction & Poetry
Performing Arts
Scholarly Writing
Visual Arts

Click on the links for the nomination forms.

Original Doylean works first published, posted, performed, or otherwise shared with the public in the past two years (2022-2023) are eligible.

January 2023 Doyealn Honors ceremony

You’re Invited!

To the January, 11, 2024
Doylean Honors Ceremony

Our Doylean Honors" ceremony will be on Thursday, January 11, 2024, at 11:15 a.m., at Otto Penzler's The Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren Street, in New York City.

If you cannot attend in person, you can join us online! Doings of Doyle will stream the event. The free registration link is here.

We will be presenting Doylean Honors in the categories of "Fiction and Poetry," "Performing Arts," "Scholarly Writing," "Visual Arts," and "Lifetime Service."

Each honoree will receive a $250 Bookshop credit and a certificate featuring (you guessed it) a doily selected by lace expert Bev Wolov.

We will also witness the second running of the ACD Society's Wessex Cup, with jockeys outfitted in genuine bespoke silks by equestrian outfitter extraordinaire Peggy MacFarlane.

We hope to see you there!

Doylean Honorees
2022-2023

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The 2024 Doylean Honorees

For Lifetime Service:

Brian Pugh

For excellence in the "Fiction and Poetry" category:

Derrick Belanger for the short story "The Joyce-Armstrong Confession" in Steel True, Blade Straight (Belanger Books)

David Marcum for the short story "Fate's Brushes" in Steel True, Blade Straight (Belanger Books)

Lee Murray for the short story "Māoriland Blue" in The Terror of Blue John Gap Project (ACD Society)

For excellence in the "Visual Arts" category:

Vincent Mallié for the illustrations in the graphic novel adaptation of The First Adventure of Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet (Magnetic Press)

For excellence in the "Scholarly Writing" category:

Emily Alder for the article Arctic Ghosts: Whale Hunting and Haunting in Arthur Conan Doyle’s "'The Captain of the “Pole-Star'" in Victorian Studies (North American Victorian Studies Association)

Douglas Kerr for the article Arthur Conan Doyle, Eugenics, and the Hand of God in Literature & History (Sage)

Sylvia A. Pamboukian for the chapter Dying Game: Unrepentant Outlaws in Christie and Doyle in Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison (Palgrave MacMillan)

Congratulations to all! To see and hear the entire awards ceremony, visit Doings of Doyle after January 21 (when it will be posted).


The 2023 Doylean Honorees

For Lifetime Service:

Owen Dudley Edwards

For excellence in the "Fiction and Poetry" category:

Margie Deck for "Whitney’s Reflection" in Steel True, Blade Straight (Belanger Books)

Paul Hiscock for "The Ascent" in Steel True, Blade Straight (Belanger Books)

David Marcum for "The Unintended Offenses" in Steel True, Blade Straight (Belanger Books)

For excellence in the "Performing and Visual Arts" category:

Jessie Amaolo for Virtual Tour of A Study in Sherlock & His Creator (Toronto Public Library)

David MacGregor for Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Ghost in the Machine (Purple Rose Theater Company)

Frank Cho for illustrations in Bonnie MacBird's What Child is This?: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Adventure (HarperCollins)

For excellence in the "Scholarly Writing" category:

Shrabani Basu for her book, The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village (Bloomsbury)

Richard Fallon for "Rediscovering Lost Worlds: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Modern Romance of Palaeontology" in his book Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature (Cambridge University Press)

Brian McCuskey for "Theory and Preaching, 1887-1930" in his book, How Sherlock Pulled the Trick: Spiritualism and the Pseudoscientific Method (Penn State University Press)

Congratulations to all! To see and hear the entire awards ceremony, visit Doings of Doyle.


The 2022 Doylean Honorees

For Lifetime Service:

Christopher Roden

For excellence in the "Fiction and Poetry" category:

Gretchen Altabef for the short story in Sir Arthur and the Time Machine Sherlock Holmes: Further Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells Volume Two (Belanger Books)

Stephen Gallagher for the short story The Governess (The Brooligan Press)

Barbara Rusch for the short story The Consulting Detective and the Literary Agent: The Untold Tale (The Sherlock Holmes Society of India website)

For excellence in the "Performing and Visual Arts" category:

Daniel Henocq for ElementStory #08.1–Le chien des Baskerville (the Hound of the Baskervilles) (Youtube)

Bonnie MacBird for Modern Major Super Sleuth (Youtube)

Peggy Perdue for Arthur Conan Doll (Canadian Holmes)

For excellence in the "Scholarly Writing" category:

Stephen Carver for the post Dinosaurs, Disintegration Machines and Talking to the Dead: The Wild World of Professor Challenger (The Wordsworth Blog)

Douglas Kerr for Memories and Adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh University Press)

Shawna Ross for the article Sightseeing the Anthropocene: tourism, moorland management, and The Hound of the Baskervilles (Nineteenth-Century Contexts)

Congratulations to all! To see and hear the entire awards ceremony, visit Doings of Doyle.


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