The CWA Daggers
Announcements Nominations For The 2026 Daggers Are Now Open. The 2025 Emerging Author Dagger is still open for entry, with a deadline of 28 February 2025. For more information, please see this page. The 2025 Margery Allingham Short Story Com...
Criminal Critiques
What are Criminal Critiques? Criminal Critiques is the CWA’s critique service for aspiring crime fiction writers, to help you polish your writing and prepare your manuscript for submission to agents and publishers, or for competitions such as the ...
Diamond Crime @ Narbeth Museum
Diamond Crime at Chapter One Saturday 15th October 2022 Authors from the new indie Welsh crime publisher, Diamond Crime, will be visiting Chapter One the Bookshop, Narberth Museum. 11am to 12pm Creating Characters a workshop with Jacqueline Ha...
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My Debut Dagger Experience, by Biba Pearce
I first found out about the CWA Debut Dagger several years ago from a writing group on Facebook. I'd been writing for a long time, an embarrassingly long time, with not much to show for it. Granted, I'd been juggling motherhood with a full-time job...
Make Crime Pay – thriller and crime fiction day
Join us for a packed day of online workshops, talks, interviews with an exciting range of Crime Writing authors. Online via Google Meet As crime and thriller fiction enjoy unparalleled popularity, join us for a packed day of online workshops, t...
Reading Party will William Dean
Stretch Theatre Company: Intended Victim
A new thriller written & directed by Simon Mawdsley. A tense, psychological thriller, with an all-female cast. Five police detectives gather to commemorate the death of one of their colleagues, but one of them is planning a murder. The question ...
Private: CWA Daggers Open
The CWA Daggers 2016 are now open via our new, dedicated, website www.cwadaggers.co.uk...
How Did I Get Ready for Entering the Debut Dagger? by Sherryl Clark
Well, first I had to get past my nerves! I’d written mostly children’s books, and to be honest, my first couple of drafts of my novel received the feedback, ‘sounds too much like a young adult novel’. Oops. I knew that really I needed to do a...
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