Debut Dagger 2019
Longlisted
Mairi Campbell-Jack
Self Help for Serial Killers
Our Chapters
The CWA has members around the world. Our regional chapters help members to connect with other writers in the same geographical area. There are also international specialty chapters for nonfiction and neurodiverse authors. Our geographically-based...
Libraries
Supporting libraries The places where many of us first discovered a love of books, and the places that for many form the centre of their reading experience, libraries are a national treasure. The CWA does not assume a political role – we leave tha...
Granite Noir 2020
Granite Noir is back for 2020 with a huge selection of fascinating author conversations, exhibitions, local history talks, film screenings, music, workshops and more, all inspired by the incredible popularity of crime fiction in all its forms and mos...
Does restorative justice have a role in responding to homicide?
Cath Staincliffe is a Manchester based crime fiction author. Her novel Letters to My Daughter's Killer movingly explores the experience of bereavement through homicide and the emotional needs unsatisfied by the formal criminal justice process. Drawi...
Festival Season is Upon Us
Doesn’t matter where in the country you are, there’s lots of criminal good fun going on. Bloody Scotland in Stirling. Noirwich in Norwich. Chiswick Book Festival. Lincoln Book Festival. Hurst Festival. Plus events in London, Newcastle, Du...
Dagger in the Library 2021
Shortlisted
James Oswald
An Evening with Lynda La Plante
At London Book Fair/ London Book & Screen Week this March, join Lynda la Plante, the queen of crime drama, for a gin cocktail as she discusses her illustrious career across page, stage and screen and offers a preview of her forthcoming book Burie...
The Killer Women Festival of Crime Writing & Drama
CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS Now in its fourth year, the capital’s only exclusively author-led festival will take place on Sunday 15 March 2020 - at Brown’s Courtrooms, Covent Garden, London. The 2020 festival will include appearances by, amongs...
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