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Michael Nethercott   Published Works

 Magazines and Anthologies (partial list):
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Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine          
Polk, Pitts, and Cadaver (short story) September/October 2022       
All Our Crimes (short story) January/February 2022
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 

Unmasked            
Mope Not For the Mighty  (anthology; short story) 2021

Flame Tree: Terrifying Ghosts         
They Walk and Weep  (anthology; short story) 2021
 
New Exterus           
The Wound  (short story) 2021

Black Cat Weekly​
Lamplighter by the Sea 
(short story) 2021
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86 Logic
Restaurant in Small Hours (poem) 2021
       
Vermont Magazine 
 An Empire at Twilight (short story) March/April 2014 
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 The Best of Abyss & Apex 2019           
Harbor Mist (
anthology; 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 by 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
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