The Crime Writers’ Association

Crime Lunch with Cath Staincliffe, Liz Mistry & Linda Green

Join us for our Crime Lunch with Cath Staincliffe, Liz Mistry & Linda Green. Event Details Date: Saturday 17th March 2018 Time: 12.30pm - 2pm Venue: Huddersfield Literature Festival, at the Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield...


In Memory of Helen Cadbury – by Marnie Riches

The world of crime fiction mourns one of its brightest and best this month. Those in the crime-writing community who were lucky enough to call Helen Cadbury a friend knew that she had secondary cancer. But we didn’t expect her to depart this world ...


Watching the Detectives with Cath Staincliffe

Watching the Detectives with Cath Staincliffe, talking about creating the Blue Murder TV series and writing books based on the Scott and Bailey drama. You can catch Cath at the following venues on 13th March: Worksop Library, Memorial Avenue, Wor...


CWA Announce New Chair

Maxim Jakubowski, a long-standing and influential figure in the publishing world, is announced as the new Chair of the world-famous Crime Writers’ Association (CWA). Maxim’s career has encompassed every aspect of publishing as an editor, translat...


Evesham Library: Reading Crime Fiction

Jacquie Rogers and Linda Mather have teamed up to present an evening of reading and writing crime at Evesham library, part of Worcestershire libraries county-wide celebration of crime reading in June. We'll be talking about how crime fiction is a por...


CWA Daggers – Shortlists Announced

The Crime Writers’ Association announced the shortlists for this year’s Dagger awards for crime writing at an at an evening drinks reception held at Waterstones Piccadilly on Wednesday 26 July. The CWA Daggers, which are the probably the awards c...


So You Want to be a Scriptwriter? With Nick Walker


An Evening of Cyber-Espionage with Antony Johnston – was 28 February, now 15 March

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO BAD WEATHER THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL THURSDAY 15 MARCH An Evening of Cyber-Espionage with Antony Johnston Presented by Imagined Things & Destination Venus Antony will read from his acclaimed new spy thriller...


An Introduction to Crime Fiction – Writing workshop

Best-selling crime novelist John Dean is to run an Introduction to Crime Fiction creative writing workshop. John, author of 17 novels, including the recently-published Death List, is published by London-based The Book Folks and is the creator of DCI ...


Looking After Your Mental Health as a Writer. With Claire Seeber and Chris Merritt


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