Michael Nethercott Published Works
Magazines and Anthologies (partial list):
Unmasked
Mope Not For the Mighty (short story) 2021
Flame Tree: Terrifying Ghosts
They Walk and Weep (short story) 2021
New Exterus
The Wound (short story) 2021
86 Logic
Restaurant in Small Hours (poem) 2021
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine UPCOMING
All Our Crimes (short story) 2021
Polk, Pitts, and Cadaver (short story) 2021
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
The Soul of Peg O’Dwyer (novelette) March/April 2021
Old Echoes (short story) September/October 2020
Sinners at Eight (short story) Jan/Feb 2018
O'Nelligan and the Beautiful Dreamer (short story) Jan/Feb 2017
O’Nelligan and the Lost Fates (short story) March 2012
Essay on Agatha Christie September 2010
O’Nelligan and the Perfect Man (short story) December 2009
O’Nelligan’s Glory (novella) July/August 2009
Vermont Magazine
An Empire at Twilight (short story) March/April 2014
The Best of Abyss & Apex 2019
Harbor Mist (short story)
By Hook or By Crook: Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year 2009 (anthology; Tyrus Books)
O’Nelligan’s Glory (novella)
Thin Ice: Crime Stories by New England Writers (anthology; Level Best 2010
Tribute (short story)
Dead Calm: Crime Stories New England Writers (anthology; Level Best) 2011
Plain Vanilla (short story)
Catholic Forester Magazine Winter 2008
Father Hulley and the Dragon (short story)
Gods and Monsters (anthology; Simian Publishing) 2006
The Banjo House (short story)
Damned Nation (anthology; Hellbound Books) 2006
Funny (short story)
Crimestalkers Casebook Winter 2002
I Know Not Where (short story)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Beastly Red Lurker (short story) August 1999
The Moonshriek Dialogue (short story) April 2001
Dead Promises (anthology, Chameleon Publishing) 1999
Dusk at Seven Pines (short story)
Additional publishing credits:
Plays—the Drama Magazine for Young People, The Chrysalis Journal, Cobblestone, Hopscotch for Girls,
and other periodicals.
Awards:
Vermont Writers' Prize 2014
"An Empire at Twilight."
Al Blanchard Award 2014
"Lamplighter by the Sea"
Finalist for the Shamus Award 2013
"O'Nelligan and the Lost Fates"
The Black Orchid Novella Award 2008
O’Nelligan’s Glory
The full-length play Our Enemy's Cup, a tale of the French Resistance, has won the Vermont Playwrights Award, the Clauder Competition and the Nor’easter Playwrights Competition.
The Nor’easter Play Writing Contest 2009
"The Best Wine" (one-act version)
Vermont Playwrights Award 2012
Clauder Competition | Portland Stage Company
Finalist 2016
Blood Grain
Best Vermont Play 2013
Our Enemy's Cup
Unmasked
Mope Not For the Mighty (short story) 2021
Flame Tree: Terrifying Ghosts
They Walk and Weep (short story) 2021
New Exterus
The Wound (short story) 2021
86 Logic
Restaurant in Small Hours (poem) 2021
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine UPCOMING
All Our Crimes (short story) 2021
Polk, Pitts, and Cadaver (short story) 2021
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
The Soul of Peg O’Dwyer (novelette) March/April 2021
Old Echoes (short story) September/October 2020
Sinners at Eight (short story) Jan/Feb 2018
O'Nelligan and the Beautiful Dreamer (short story) Jan/Feb 2017
O’Nelligan and the Lost Fates (short story) March 2012
Essay on Agatha Christie September 2010
O’Nelligan and the Perfect Man (short story) December 2009
O’Nelligan’s Glory (novella) July/August 2009
Vermont Magazine
An Empire at Twilight (short story) March/April 2014
The Best of Abyss & Apex 2019
Harbor Mist (short story)
By Hook or By Crook: Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year 2009 (anthology; Tyrus Books)
O’Nelligan’s Glory (novella)
Thin Ice: Crime Stories by New England Writers (anthology; Level Best 2010
Tribute (short story)
Dead Calm: Crime Stories New England Writers (anthology; Level Best) 2011
Plain Vanilla (short story)
Catholic Forester Magazine Winter 2008
Father Hulley and the Dragon (short story)
Gods and Monsters (anthology; Simian Publishing) 2006
The Banjo House (short story)
Damned Nation (anthology; Hellbound Books) 2006
Funny (short story)
Crimestalkers Casebook Winter 2002
I Know Not Where (short story)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Beastly Red Lurker (short story) August 1999
The Moonshriek Dialogue (short story) April 2001
Dead Promises (anthology, Chameleon Publishing) 1999
Dusk at Seven Pines (short story)
Additional publishing credits:
Plays—the Drama Magazine for Young People, The Chrysalis Journal, Cobblestone, Hopscotch for Girls,
and other periodicals.
Awards:
Vermont Writers' Prize 2014
"An Empire at Twilight."
Al Blanchard Award 2014
"Lamplighter by the Sea"
Finalist for the Shamus Award 2013
"O'Nelligan and the Lost Fates"
The Black Orchid Novella Award 2008
O’Nelligan’s Glory
The full-length play Our Enemy's Cup, a tale of the French Resistance, has won the Vermont Playwrights Award, the Clauder Competition and the Nor’easter Playwrights Competition.
The Nor’easter Play Writing Contest 2009
"The Best Wine" (one-act version)
Vermont Playwrights Award 2012
Clauder Competition | Portland Stage Company
Finalist 2016
Blood Grain
Best Vermont Play 2013
Our Enemy's Cup
