The Crime Writers’ Association

True Crime Tales: Serial Killers and Psychopaths

Renowned criminal psychologist, guest lecturer, radio host, podcaster, and blogger Linda Sage is talking true crime to the people of Yorkshire. Linda spent forty years working in England’s top category prisons with the UK’s most notorious crim...


Daggers Longlist has been announced!

The 2023 Daggers longlist has been announced at the CWA annual conference in York where members toasted the listed authors and publishers. The shortlist will be announced at a reception at CrimeFest in Bristol on Friday 12 May. Good luck to everyone!...


Book Signing with Alice Castle

11-12th May, Dulwich Open House Festival, 11am to 5pm. Alice Castle will be selling and signing copies of Death in Dulwich, The Girl in the Gallery, Calamity in Camberwell, Homicide in Herne Hill and Revenge on the Rye. Books are £8 each.   ...


Alice Castle in Conversation with Local Authors

Alice Castle will be in conversation with local authors at Rye Books on 16th May, she will also be selling and signing books.   Before turning to a life of crime, Alice Castle was a UK newspaper journalist for The Daily Express, The Times and ...


Book Signing with Alice Castle

18-19th May, Dulwich Open House Festival 11am -5pm Alice Castle will be selling and signing copies of Death in Dulwich, The Girl in the Gallery, Calamity in Camberwell, Homicide in Herne Hill and Revenge on the Rye. Books are £8 each.   Bef...


Who Wunnit? CWA Dagger winners announced

Some two hundred agents, publishers and authors were present at the glamourous awards dinner at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, to find out the winners of the 2014 CWA Daggers. Alison Joseph, Chair of the CWA said: “Our Daggers Awards dinner is a...


Crime #2 at Havering Literary Festival

Isabelle Grey has published four novels in a crime series set in Essex and featuring DI Grace Fisher – Good Girls Don’t Die, Shot Through The Heart and The Special Girls. The fourth book, Wrong Way Home, a Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, is...


Emerging Authors

Emerging Authors Join the Crime Writers' Association as an Emerging Author - A new type of membership for tomorrow's writers. This category encourages new crime writers in their quest to become published authors by welcoming them into the com...


CWA welcome pack

CWA welcome packNew members are sent a welcome pack PDF when they join the CWA, to outline the benefits of membership and act as a handy guide to our activities and contacts. We invite all members, from recent to longstanding, to download the PDF ...


Bookshop of the Month – August 2022: Imagined Things Bookshop

Georgia Eckert from Imagined Things Bookshop in conversation with William Shaw. In 2018, Imagined Things Bookshop, in Harrogate, became known as the bookshop that was saved by a tweet.  On 25 June 2018, bookshop owner, Georgia Eckert, let the wor...


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