The Crime Writers’ Association

Escaping from Lockdown with JC Briggs

Much I have I travelled in the realms of gold … So wrote John Keats in his sonnet On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, which book took him to ‘goodly states and kingdoms.’ Reading took him to far-flung places where he would never go, and im...


Traditionally Published membership

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ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction 2022

Shortlisted


Julie Kavanagh

The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire

Atlantic Books / Grove Press UK


Provisional membership

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Michael Connelly to receive CWA Diamond Dagger 2018

The Crime Writers’ Association is delighted to announce that Michael Connelly is to receive the 2018 CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing. The Dagger award recognises authors whose crime writing careers have been marked b...


Emerging author membership

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Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2021

Shortlisted


Catherine Ryan Howard

The Nothing Man

Atlantic Books


CWA Dagger in the Library 2015

Eleven authors have today been longlisted for the CWA 2015 Dagger in the Library award, thanks to your votes. The longlist was compiled by YOU right and we’re thrilled that so many of you stopped by to vote for your three favourite authors. The res...


CWA Dagger Results

The Crime Writers’ Association have revealed the winners of the 2015 Dagger Awards at their prestigious ceremony in London. Authors and publishers gathered at the Hotel Russell on Tuesday 30th June for the presentation, which marks the end of C...


Alis Hawkins’ Indie Bookshop Tour: Narberth

Alis will be at Chapter One bookshop in Narberth Museum talking to readers over wine and nibbles about why I chose to set my historical crime series in the Teifi Valley and giving sneak previews of In Two Minds.   Harry Probert-Lloyd, a youn...


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