The Crime Writers’ Association

The Awards Dinner

The Awards Dinner The 2024 CWA Daggers Awards Dinner was held on 4 July, 2024 at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London City on Cooper's Row....


Edinburgh Delegates to Receive Rewards Passport

A new benefit for delegates to the CWA Annual Conference has been announced - they will automatically receive a special Edinburgh Rewards Passport. Launched by Convention Edinburgh, the Passport rewards conference delegates with special offers and v...


No Better Place to Be in May than CrimeFest

CrimeFest. One of the UK's most loved crime-writing festivals. CrimeFest is a convention for people who like to read an occasional crime novel as well as for die-hard fanatics. Drawing top crime novelists, readers, editors, publishers and reviewers ...


The McIlvanney Prize Longlist Announced

LONGLIST ANNOUNCED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 ‘I went to Bloody Scotland and I was just knocked out…. I’ve been at literary events where a lot of people have knives sticking out their back that they ...


Wine & Crime

Crime writers Brian Price (the DC Mel Cotton series) and BJ Mears (the Banyard and Mingle mysteries) will be hosting a wine and crime evening in aid of Weston-super-Mare food bank. The event will take place on 9 December between 7pm and 9pm at the...


Dagger Shortlist Evening Reception

The Crime Writers’ Association will announce the shortlists for the 2017 Dagger awards at a drinks reception at Waterstones, Piccadilly (Lower Ground Floor) from 6.30pm on Wednesday July 26. Shortlists will be announced for the following Daggers: ...


Crime Panel – with Mark Hill, Anna Mazzola and Abir Mukherjee (chaired by Barry Forshaw)

This is first of a series of cracking crime events that we’re putting on for your entertainment to highlight some of the very best authors around right now. - Mark Hill – author of The Two O’Clock Boy - Anna Mazzola – author of The Unseei...


‘Fatal Dose’ Book Launch – Brian Price

Brian Price will be signing copies of his latest DC Mel Cotton thriller, Fatal Dose at The Black Cat, Weston-super-Mare on 1 February 2023. Looking forward to seeing you at this free event. For more information, please contact brian@crimewriterscien...


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