CWA Daggers Awarded in Glittering Ceremony
All 10 winners of this year’s CWA Daggers were announced at a glittering black-tie occasion at the Grange City Hotel in Cooper’s Row, London on Tuesday October 11. The CWA Daggers, which are probably the awards crime writers and publishers alike ...
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 ...
MysteryFest
With Diana Bretherick, Simon Brett, Judith Cranswick, Jeff Dowson, Donna Fletcher-Crow, Christine Hammacott, Dot Marshall-Gent, Graham Minett, Jennifer Palmer, Linda Regan, Leigh Russell, Sally Spedding, Lesley Thomson, Laura Weston and Carol ...
Alibis in the Archives
Back by popular demand, Alibis in the Archive (in association with the Crime Writers’ Association and The Detection Club) returns for a third year to bring some of the UK’s best-loved crime writers to Hawarden. Over a weekend of talk sessions and...
Short Story Dagger
Short Story Dagger This award is for any crime short story first published in the UK in English during the Judging Period, whether on its own or within an anthology or collection. Upon publication it must have been for sale to the public, either in ...
Marketing your books
Marketing your Books The CWA’s mission is to promote the crime-writing genre, both fiction and non-fiction, and support our membership of professional authors. We offer our members a wide range of promotional outlets, and the help of our Bookselle...
Local Blood: A Panel Discussion with local authors Michelle Birkby, Emma Curtis and Jess Kidd
Three local authors from Richmond upon Thames team up to talk about their latest novels and the process of writing. Birkby, Curtis and Kidd have each mined the dark seams of mystery and suspense and written tales that strike chords of unease amongst ...
National Crime Reading Month
June, and the CWA’s initiative sees plenty of crime-writing events taking place in many locations throughout the country. To find events in your area, do visit the National Crime Reading Month website where the events are listed by region. Any fest...
Peter Tickler: the Tickler’s Jam Murders
Peter Tickler mixes crime fiction with family history in The Tickler's jam Murders. Tickler's Jam was supplied to the British troops during the first world war. Soldiers sang songs about it. Cartoonists joked about it, and it became a household name...
Toni Mount : Author Talk & Book Launch
Join Toni Mount on 22nd May at Gravesend Library, Kent to launch the new murder mystery The Colour of Lies. Toni will be talking about her writing career, writing non-fiction history books,and medieval murder mysteries, the story so far in t...
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