Hayakawa Mystery Contest
はやかわ・みすてり・こんてすと
Public new writer award for short mystery fiction hosted by Hayakawa Publishing
- Established
- 1990
- Organizer
- Hayakawa Publishing
- Category
- Genre Fiction
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Status
- Ended
Description
Public new writer award for short mystery fiction solicited in Mystery Magazine, held a total of 3 times from 1990 to 1992.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Publication of winning entry in Mystery Magazine
- Publication of honorable mentions
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Final Selection | Michio Tsuzuki, Machiko Koike | — | — |
Related Awards
- Agatha Christie Award
- Hayakawa SF Contest
Past Winners
Bury the Blues by 山田風見子 is a Japanese mystery story. 音楽の気配をまとった題名が示すように、喪失と事件の余韻を重ねるミステリ作品。短い形式のなかで、人物の過去と現在が暗い響きをもって交差する。
Bury the Blues distills the author's eye and style into a compact work.
Earthworms, Babies, or the Sugar-Water Swamp by 深堀骨 is a Japanese mystery story. 異様な題名が示す不穏さを手がかりに、日常からずれた感覚と奇妙な事件性を結びつける作品。幻想とミステリの境界にある湿った読後感が特徴である。
Earthworms, Babies, or the Sugar-Water Swamp distills the author's eye and style into a compact work.
Tonari ni Ryoshin Ariki is Hideo Yamazaki's grand-prize work for the Hayakawa Mystery Contest. Its title points to neighborly relations and moral instability, suggesting criminality close to ordinary life.
From the close words neighbor and conscience, the work raises the atmosphere of mystery hidden inside daily life.
A fanciful mystery in which a commuting office worker dies on the Yamanote Line and is held up in the afterlife. The premise that he cannot move on until someone in the living world recognizes his death turns city routine and loneliness into dark irony.
In a city where no one notices his death, even the gates of heaven are kept waiting.
A short mystery with a fantastic mood built around moonlight. Confirmed as a magazine-published work, it is described as combining the image of a beauty seen in moonlight with a mystery device.
Under moonlight, the image of a woman looking back rises with an air of mystery.