The Crime Writers’ Association

Noirwich Crime Writing Festival

Some of the top names in crime fiction will take part in the fourth Noirwich Crime Writing Festival, the fastest-growing crime festival in the UK, and the biggest in the east of England. Val McDermid, Anthony Horowitz, Martina Cole, Mark Billingham, ...


Killer Women Weekend – Open to All!

Will you write the next crime bestseller? Learn the art & craft of crime fiction from bestselling authors including: Rachel Abbott, Mark Billingham, Erin Kelly, Mick Herron, Stuart MacBride, Sarah Pinborough, Cally Taylor. Pitch your idea to...


Yeovil Literary Festival

Crime events mostly take place in Yeovil Library and the Octagon Theatre and will include authors in conversation, a workshop and a pop-up reading group. Authors include Stephen Booth, Clare Donoghue, Mark Billingham, Chris Ewan, Christopher Fowler ...


Edinburgh Drama Explores Holmes-Watson Dynamic

A new play by David Stuart Davies, a recognised authority on Sherlock Holmes, is set to wow audiences at the Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh on 1-3 March at 6.45pm. Sherlock Holmes: The Final Reckoning is far from being yet another standard Holmes myster...


NOIRELAND – A new crime fiction festival with a distinctly Irish accent

NOIRELAND is a celebration of Ireland’s love of crime fiction. We have the best in local talent, guest appearances by international crime-writing stars, and in-depth conversations with some of the greatest screenwriters to put crime dramas on the s...


First Monday

London’s premier crime fiction evening event, First Monday, returns to City University in Northampton Square (Angel Tube) on 2 October, beginning at 6.30pm. It’s a stellar line-up, as usual, with 2017’s CWA Diamond Dagger recipient Ann Cleeves,...


Sally Spedding’s Fear Workshop at Narberth Book Fair

Sally's workshop 'Fear is the Key' on settings for crime/thrillers begins at 1.15pm during Narberth Book Fair 10am-4pm Full details - www.narberthbookfair.co.uk ​Sally's latest book, Behold a Pale Horse, is now out. Cut to the Bone, Sally's eight...


Crime Fact, Crime Fiction Event

If you like to read, watch or write crime fiction or would like to know more about the work of detectives from SOCO to forensics, this is the event for you! You will hear from panels of criminologists and npovalists, inlcuding writer and former barr...


North Norfolk U3A – True Crime: One Day Conference

The North Norfolk U3A One Day Conference includes the following presentation: Norfolk Murder - From Stanfield Hall to the last person to hang in the county – Neil Storey The Secret Poisoner - A history of poison murder in the 19th Century - Linda ...


Politics and Prose with Julie Anderson

In an age in which we are all citizen journalists and political commentators on social media and the political blog has found a place in the mainstream media in a way undreamed of thirty years ago, what place does political fiction have? The power s...


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