The Crime Writers’ Association

CWA Launch High Profile National Crime Reading Month

Ian Rankin, Anthony Horowitz, Elly Griffiths and Vaseem Khan announced as new ambassadors for NCRM The Crime Writers’ Association launches National Crime Reading Month (NCRM) this June – a major initiative designed to celebrate the genre and g...


Crime Writers in Residence – at home with JG Harlond

The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. After many years living and working in different parts of Europe I am now settled in a rural Andalucía with my Spanish husband. Ten years ago I gave up a safe and successful ...


Debut Dagger

Emerging Author Dagger (Debut Dagger) Announcements Congratulations to our 2024 Shortlist Authors! See below for details. Winner: Dagger Awards Dinner, evening of Thursday 4 July, Leonardo City Hotel, London. All announcements will also appe...


CWA Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition 2018 Now Open

The Crime Writers’ Association are once again running the prestigious Margery Allingham Short Story Competition in 2018. The international competition is for an unpublished story in under 3,500 words that fits into the famous Golden Age crime write...


Crime Fiction in Translation with Love Reading

This week to celebrate National Crime Reading Month, Love Reading have put together a list of their favourite Crime Fiction in translation, including Antti Tuomainen’s Little Siberia that was shortlisted for the CWA’s Crime Fiction in Translation...


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...


Shots In The Dark Festival

Shots In The Dark Festival Sunday July 1st, 8.15pm CJ Tudor will be in conversation with John Baird. Tudor is the author of the international bestseller The Chalk Man. Her debut novel, a creepy claustrophobic thriller, sparked a furious bidding war....


Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Festival

Join us for Wales’s very first international crime fiction festival, Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Festival. It kicks off in Aberystwyth this spring with its own unique brand of murder, mystery and criminal mayhem. From April 21-23 you can join bestsellers...


Shortlists for the CWA Daggers

The CWA will be announcing the shortlists for the CWA Daggers at an event to be held on Wednesday 25 July 2018 at Daunts Books, 61 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6AX. CWA Dagger shortlists to be announced: Gold Dagger, Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, John Crease...


2016 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

Harrogate International Festivals - Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2016 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award Plotted by Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival Harrogate. #theakstonscrime The evening will also include th...


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