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Nominations for the 2025 Daggers Are Now Closed.
Nominations for the 2025 Daggers (except for the Emerging Author Dagger) are now Closed. Thank you for your entries, and see you next year!
Enter Your Short Story for a Chance at £500!
Enter your mystery story of 3,500 words or less in the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition. Deadline 28 February, 2025. You can find the details here.
Unpublished Writers, Enter the Emerging Author Dagger!
Do you have a crime novel in progress? Your opening and synopsis could win you £500 and other fabulous prizes. Deadline 28 February 2025. Check out the details here.
The Dagger in the Library rewards authors who are popular with library borrowers, and who help to promote libraries. Now that library patrons have submitted their favourite authors’ names to the staff of their local libraries, it’s time for library staff to vote! Read more about the process here.
Are you an unpublished writer who is serious about crime writing? You may qualify for Emerging Author membership with the CWA. Read more about the Emerging Author membership process and benefits here.
Would you like monthly eNewsletters about the latest crime books? Visit the Crime Readers’ Association and subscribe – it’s free.
Nominations for the 2025 Daggers Are Now Closed.
Nominations for the 2025 Daggers (except for the Emerging Author Dagger) are now Closed. Thank you for your entries, and see you next year!
Enter Your Short Story for a Chance at £500!
Enter your mystery story of 3,500 words or less in the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition. Deadline 28 February, 2025. You can find the details here.
Unpublished Writers, Enter the Emerging Author Dagger!
Do you have a crime novel in progress? Your opening and synopsis could win you £500 and other fabulous prizes. Deadline 28 February 2025. Check out the details here.
The Dagger in the Library rewards authors who are popular with library borrowers, and who help to promote libraries. Now that library patrons have submitted their favourite authors’ names to the staff of their local libraries, it’s time for library staff to vote! Read more about the process here.
Are you an unpublished writer who is serious about crime writing? You may qualify for Emerging Author membership with the CWA. Read more about the Emerging Author membership process and benefits here.
Would you like monthly eNewsletters about the latest crime books? Visit the Crime Readers’ Association and subscribe – it’s free.
About the CWA
The CWA promotes, supports and celebrates crime writing, and writers of all crime fiction and non-fiction from across the globe. We’re proud to be a growing, thriving community with membership encompassing authors of all ages and at every stage of their careers.
Find out more about who can join the CWA and the benefits we provide: