CWA Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition â Winner Announced
The Crime Writersâ Association (CWA) has announced the winner of its Margery Allingham Short Mystery Prize. Camilla Macpherson beat strong competition with her short story, âHeartbridge Homicidesâ. Camilla lives in The Hague in the Nether...
Agatha Christie Centenary Celebration
BIRTHDAY PARTY WILL CELEBRATE A CENTURY OF CHRISTIE CREATIVITY Diary date: Thursday 15 September 2016 Dame Agatha Christieâs home town marks her birthday and the 100th anniversary of the completion of her first crime no...
Slaughter in Southwold
Meet and dine with top crime authors and enjoy a musical written by Sophie Hannah, murder mystery dinner written by Ann Cleeves, and crime-themed quiz night. Tickets available from TicketSource and Southwold Library. Individual author talks ÂŁ6; fu...
Bookshop of the Month â July 2021: The Steyning Bookshop
Every month, as part of the new CWA Booksellers Champion initiative with bestselling author Elly Griffiths, we want to celebrate a bookshop because we believe bookshops donât just sell our books â they bring our streets alive. Kicking this off is...
William Ryan at Chiswick Book Festival
William Ryan, author of the acclaimed Inspector Korolev series set in Russia in the 1930s and of the forthcoming The Constant Soldier, is a featured author at the Chiswick Book Festival. Savage Continent: Fiction and the Fall of Nazi Germany Toge...
Putting the Noir into Norwich: A New Crime Writing Festival
Putting the Noir into Norwich: A New Crime Writing Festival 10th â 14th September The Crime Writers’ Association is delighted to be collaborating with University of East Anglia, Waterstones and Writers’ Centre Norwich to create a deadly...
The Witching Hour
With Syd Moore, Cathi Unsworth and Roz Watkins ÂŁ8 (conc ÂŁ7 / students ÂŁ6) Book online https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/spektrix/event-detail/?WebEventId=witching-noir18 or call 01603 877177 Here in the medieval splendour of Drago...
Death in Paradise
With Robert Thorogood ÂŁ8 (conc ÂŁ7 / students ÂŁ6) Book online https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/spektrix/event-detail/?WebEventId=paradise-noir18 or call 01603 877177 BBC Oneâs Death in Paradise â the award-winning drama set on an idyl...
New CWA Anthology Published 22 February
The Crime Writersâ Association (CWA) has released a new collection of crime stories written by its members. Music of the Night, edited by Martin Edwards, invited CWA authors to submit short stories on the theme of music. An array of award-winnin...
Flappers, fops and murder: writing crime fiction in the jazz age
Newcastle author Fiona Veitch Smith, whose debut historical crime novel, The Jazz Files, has been shortlisted for this yearâs Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger Award, will be reading from The Jazz Files and her latest book in the Poppy De...
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