The Crime Writers’ Association

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Get in touch Administration CWA Inbox Secretary: secretary@thecwa.co.uk Vicki Goldie (usual hours Mon - Fri, mornings) Contact the secretary with questions about the CWA, Chapters and the CRA.  Vicki will forward your query to the correc...


Martin Edwards presents on ‘Classic and Contemporary Crime Writing’

The Friends of Stockton Heath Library are planning to mark Crime Reading Month at Stockton Heath Library with a talk by Martin Edwards on 'Classic and Contemporary Crime Writing' on 16th May at 7.30pm at Stockton Heath Library. Tickets will be avail...


Crime Writers Emerging from Lockdown with Louise Burfitt-Dons

How an escape story inspired The Secret War Some years ago when I was living in Australia I met someone whose family had escaped the Cultural Revolution. The planning required utmost secrecy for the father to organise their ‘trip to Hong Kong to...


Talk with Paul Finch

Join us for a talk with Author and scriptwriter Paul Finch. Having started out with a career in the Police, Paul left this profession to pursue a career in writing; penning scripts for popular TV show ‘The Bill’ before becoming an author. A write...


Kate Griffin: The Kitty Peck Mysteries

The Kitty Peck Mysteries (2016) (A book in the Kitty Peck series) An omnibus of novels by Kate Griffin Kitty Peck is taking on the underworld of London’s East End. The Music Hall Murders: It’s 1880 and dancing girls are going missing from ‘P...


2021 winning story

Heartbridge Homicides - Camilla Macpherson ‘Haven’t seen you before,’ said Janet, as she approached the thin, nervy-looking man waiting at the red and white parking barrier. Beyond the barrier (so near, but yet so far) lay the studio where H...


Alis Hawkins’ Indie Bookshop Tour – Machynlleth

Pen’rallt Bookshop, Machynlleth: Alis Hawkins is celebrating National Crime Reading Month and the publication of In Two Minds, the second in her Teifi Valley Coroner historical crime series by visiting all of Wales’s independent bookshops. ...


2020 winning story

A Time to Confess - Della Millward “In my experience, those who beg for mercy seldom deserve it.” Alex Mason’s clear voice carried across the dry air of the cavern and Peter was glad there weren’t many people around to hear her. Sometim...


2020 highly commended story

Sting in the Tail - Laila Murphy Did you know that insects are among the most successful species on Earth? They outlived dinosaurs. They’ll outlive us. My speciality is wasps. Vespology. Wasps get a bad deal. People are afraid of them but the...


Slaughter in Southwold Crime Writers Festival

Join Southwold Libraries for a criminally good weekend of author talks, a murder mystery dinner and a crime quiz. Featuring CWA authors William Shaw, Lesley Thomson, Louise Candlish, Rory Clements, Cara Hunter, Dagger in the Library winner Kate Ellis...


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