Nominate Your Favorites!

For Doylean Honors, to be
Presented on January 8, 2026

ACD Society members are invited to 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. (The links will go live as the forms become available.) The nomination deadline is November 15, 2025.

Original Doylean works first published, posted, performed, or otherwise shared with the public in the past two years (2024-2025) are eligible.

You’re Invited!

To the January 8, 2026
Doylean Honors Ceremony

Our annual "Doylean Honors" event will be on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, at 11:15 a.m., at Otto Penzler's The Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren Street, in New York City.

If you can't attend in person, join us online! Doings of Doyle will stream the event live (with Mark Jones, producer, and Matt Hall, internet guru).

The free streaming registration link will be here soon.

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 a doily selected by lace expert Bev Wolov.

We will also witness the fourth running of our Wessex Cup, with four-legged (or wheeled), beautifully outfitted racers.

We hope to see you there!

Doylean Honorees
2022-2025

The 2025 Doylean Honorees

For Lifetime Service:

• Catherine Cooke

For excellence in the "Fiction and Poetry" category:

• Margie Deck for the story collection, "The Genius of the Place" (Belanger Books)

• Daniel Friedman and Eugene Friedman for the poem, "At the Crossroads of Fate" (Belanger Books)

• Nicholas Meyer for the novel, "Sherlock Holmes and the Telegraph from Hell" (Mysterious Press)

For excellence in the "Performing Arts" category:

• Mark Gatiss for the film, "Lot 249" (Adorable Media/BBC Arts)

• Hal Glatzer for the radio play, "Flatfinders 1881"

For excellence in the "Visual Arts" category:

• Megan Oldhues for the painting, "The End of Devil Hawker" (Sherlock Holmes Walk Mural Art)

• Molly Knox Ostertag for the drawing, "Watson’s Sketchbook: Volume 1" (MKO Books)

For excellence in the "Scholarly Writing" category:

• Anne Chapman for the article, "Authority and medical expertise: Arthur Conan Doyle in The Idler," in Medical Humanities (a journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics)

• Ollie Randall for the article, "Cricket, Literary Culture and In-Groups in Early Twentieth-Century Britain," in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Cambridge Univ. Press)

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

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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.

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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.

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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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