MAKE CRIME PAY
Saturday 4th March 10.00am – 7.30pm. MAKE CRIME PAY. A fantastic range of authors including Tom Mead and Cath Staincliffe in a day of online workshops, talks and interviews. Details and tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/make-crime-pay-tickets-4817782...
The Board
The Board The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) is a company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales (no. 3495776). It’s a non-campaigning, non-sectarian body. Our primary objective is to promote the prestige and appreciation ...
Dagger in the Library – shortlist announced
CWA 2014 Dagger in the Library Award shortlist announced Five authors have today been shortlisted for the CWA 2014 Dagger in the Library award, sponsored by Dead Good Books. This year, for the first time, readers compiled the long list as crim...
Bookshop of the Month – July 2022: Booka Bookshop
In conversation with Vaseem Khan Booka Bookshop 26-28 Church Street Oswestry Shropshire SY11 2SP Tel: 01691 662244 www.bookabookshop.co.uk Behind Tim Morris’s shoulder is a framed photo of Shane Warne, the global cricketing icon who...
Dagger Shortlists Announced
A debut novel is up against one of Britain’s biggest and most celebrated authors for the crime novel of the year. The 2021 shortlists for the prestigious CWA Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime writing genre, have been announced....
CWA Launch High Profile National Crime Reading Month
Ian Rankin, Anthony Horowitz, Elly Griffiths and Vaseem Khan announced as new ambassadors for NCRM The Crime Writers’ Association launches National Crime Reading Month (NCRM) this June – a major initiative designed to celebrate the genre and g...
CWA authors in ‘Mug Shot’ video interviews through June
A newly-launched initiative designed to showcase crime writers will feature in National Crime Reading Month in June with four authors talking about their craft and the publishing industry. Launched in January, Mug Shots is run by Tall Tales Mysterie...
Cultural Appropriation in Literature & Writing across Cultural Boundaries
On Dec 7 @ 7pm GMT the CWA will host Dagger-winning author Vaseem Khan as he brings his Arts Council-sponsored diversity project to a close with an online presentation and Q&A. It will also see the launch of a downloadable PDF of the guidelines f...
Social media and privacy policy
Social media and privacy policy The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) takes its duty to process your personal data very seriously. This policy explains how we collect, manage, use and protect your personal data. We do occasionally update this Po...
CWA Dagger Awards – Shortlist
The Crime Writers’ Association has unveiled the shortlisted authors for five categories in the 2015 Dagger awards during an official reception at this year’s CRIMEFEST in Bristol. Authors, publishers and delegates assembled to hear the Dag...
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