Sponsorship packages
Sponsor a CWA Dagger The Daggers were established in 1955 to celebrate the very best in crime writing. More than half a century later they’re still recognised as the most prestigious crime-writing awards in the UK, and renowned across the globe as...
Diamond Sponsorship Package
Diamond Sponsorship Package - Diamond DaggerSponsoring the Diamond Dagger provides the following benefits: 1. The sponsor’s name and logo appears on all official Daggers literature and communications, as well as relevant website promotions and so...
Elite Sponsorship Package
Elite Sponsorship Package Gold Dagger Ian Fleming Steel Dagger* John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger* Twisted Dagger Whodunnit Dagger * indicates that the award currently has a sponsorSponsoring an Elite Dagger provides the f...
Prestige Dagger Sponsorship
Prestige Sponsorship Package Historical Dagger Gold Dagger for Nonfiction* Dagger in the Library Crime Fiction in Translation* Short Story Dagger Emerging Author Dagger *indicates that this award has a current sponsor...
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...
Awards & competitions
Awards & competitions The CWA hosts a number of awards and competitions. Many of these are for books nominated by publishers and selected by independent judging panels, others are awards made by the CWA or other bodies, such as libraries. Yet ot...
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Join the CWA Who can join? We offer full membership for those in the UK and overseas who have had published a full length work of crime fiction or non-fiction, and provisional membership for those who have a contract from a recognised publishing ho...
The CWA Daggers
Announcements Nominations for the 2025 Daggers are now open! The submission period for the 2024 Debut Dagger, is now closed. The longlists for all Daggers, except possibly for the Debut Dagger, will be announced at the CWA Conference in Brig...
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