The Crime Writers’ Association

Chiswick Book Festival

Murder and Mayhem in Leafy Chiswick Saturday September 14th The Art of the Thriller Former soldier and diplomat Alan Judd and former BBC journalist Peter Hetherington discuss with Julian Worricker the art of writing gripping fiction. Crime and Suspen...


Deal Noir

The Landmark Centre, Deal on Saturday 25 March 2017 The third annual Deal Noir Crime Fiction convention. This entertaining day will feature: Best-selling authors speaking on crime fiction in all its forms from dark psychological thrillers throu...


The Awards Dinner

The Awards Dinner This year's CWA Daggers Awards Dinner will be held on 4 July (time to be announced) at: The Leonardo Royal Hotel London City 8-14 Cooper’s Row London EC3N 2BQ (Please note: to purchase CWA member tickets, you will need t...


Vintage Thrillers Film Weekend, Chester

A residential weekend course organised by the Cosmopolitan Film Club (non-profit) is running at Chester University campus on Vintage Thrillers (1950 - 1961) this August. There are seven thrillers being shown commencing on Friday evening and ending ...


Margate Bookie – Crime Waves

Best-selling crime authors Lisa Jewell, Tammy Cohen and Amanda Jennings share the secrets of twisty noir and psychological thrillers. Lisa Jewell’s books include Ralph’s Party, Thirtynothing, After The Party and most recently The House We Grew ...


CWA’s Margery Allingham Short Story Competition to Continue

The Margery Allingham Society has agreed with the Crime Writers’ Association that the popular short mystery competition will run for at least another five years, until 2024. The Society, set up to honour and promote the writings of the great Golden...


2024 Debut Daggers Longlist Announced!


Alderney Literary Festival

Featuring a line-up of best-selling and award-winning authors, the festival focuses on historical writing and runs from Friday March 17th to Sunday March 19th with talks, panel discussions and fringe events. It opens with a fascinating panel discu...


Staying Accountable

Even writers don’t feel like writing all of the time. When you’re part-way through your book and the rest of it stretches out ahead of you like an insurmountable task, the temptation to do something else instead can become strong, and if you’ve...


Short Story Dagger 2021

Shortlisted


James Delargy

Planting Nan

Criminal Minds Group


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