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The CWA Remembers CJ Sansom
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CWA Responds to Incident at Conference
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2024 Debut Daggers Longlist Announced!
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Society of Authors Urges Findaway Voices to Clarify New Terms of Use
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The CWA Says Thank You to Darren Wills
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Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin Named New SOA Chair
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Diamond Dagger Joint Winners Announced!
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Two New Daggers Announced
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2024 Dagger Nominations Open
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The CWA Presents Crime Writers’ Clinics
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Johnston’s cosy crime debut wins Barker Book Award
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Whitelaw wins fiction award at Lakeland
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Behind the Scenes of Crime in 1987 – the CWA on BBC Radio 4!
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2023 Dagger Award Winners Announced
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National Crime Reading Month off to a blazing start!
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CWA Conference York 2023
The old adage says that time flies when you’re having fun and, like many old sayings, it is true. And that probably explains why this year’s conference, held primarily in the Park Inn by Radisson in York, seemed to fly by in a matter of moments. But what moments they were.
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Vaseem Khan elected Chair of the CWA
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Daggers Shortlist has been announced
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International Literary Properties (ILP) to sponsor the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2023
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