The Crime Writers’ Association

Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival

Join Louise Mumford, Elly Griffiths, Sarah Ward, Sarah Bax-Horton and more at Wales's first crime festival! Join crime fiction lovers online 16-18 and 22-24 April 2024 for a series of very special presentations. Check out the programme and book your ...


Mark Billingham’s Crime Fiction Masterclass

‘How to Write Crime Fiction’ Masterclass On Wednesday 5th April, on behalf of Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook, popular crime writer Mark Billingham is giving an evening two-hour masterclass on How To Write Crime Fiction. What are the rules...


Reading Party will William Dean


Murder One International Crime Festival

Murder One is Ireland's International Crime Festival. Meet authors, agents, and other professionals for a weekend of crime. This is an event for readers and writers of both crime fiction and nonfiction. Murder One is presented in association with the...


Historia Live: Wicked Ireland

‘Historia Live – Dublin’, is an exciting new series of literary events in Ireland highlighting historical fiction, in association with the Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. The f...


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Reporter sleuths & crime fiction

Reporter Sleuths in Crime Fiction: Join crime author Fiona Veitch Smith in conversation with Warwickshire Libraries, Newcastle Libraries and the British Library. Warwickshire Libraries, in partnership with Newcastle Libraries and the British Libra...


Evening to discuss Lois Austen-Leigh’s The Incredible Crime

Heffers Bookshop and British Library Publications invite you to an evening discussing Lois Austen-Leigh’s The Incredible Crime. This crime novel by a great, great niece of Jane Austen – supposedly written on the very desk used by her illustrious...


Chiswick’s Crime Writers Panel

Story Telling: From Genre to Literary, the Extraordinary Flexibility of Crime Ever wondered how crime writers approach their writing? Three authors and members of the Crime Writers Association, Louise Burfitt-Dons (The Missing Activist) Tony White (...


An evening with Len Tyler and Suzette Hill

Join Len Tyler and Suzette Hill, two of Heffers' crime fiction favourites, as they talk about their new books A Herring in the Smoke and Shot in Southwold. Tickets are £4 in advance and available from tylerandhillatheffers.eventbrite.co.uk....


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