Northern Ireland is Set for NCRM 2024
PRESS RELEASE The Crime Writers Association, National Crime Reading Month NI Crime Writers team up with Libraries NI and local bookstores to celebrate National Crime Reading Month with a host of events across the province throughout June. Fo...
CWA Annual Conference: Edinburgh, April 2017
CWA Edinburgh Conference 21 – 23 April 2017 The CWA Annual Conference, open to CWA members only, is shaping up to be a lot of fun – and a chance to get together with fellow writers in a superb setting in Edinburgh, the Jekyll and Hyde of cities ...
Daggers Shortlist has been announced
The 2023 shortlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced at Crime Fest in Bristol. 2023 marks the CWA’s 70th Platinum Jubilee Year; the Dagg...
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...
Ray Clark’s new novel, Implant
Ray Clark’s new novel, Implant, published August 9 by Urbane Books, is designed to make you think about where the world is heading, and how much we all rely on technology. And what a technically clever and ruthless killer might be able to do with i...
Vaseem Khan elected Chair of the CWA
Vaseem Khan has been elected as the new Chair of the CWA at the association's AGM earlier this month, taking over from Maxim Jakubowski, who ably steered the CWA Chair for three years. Vaseem is the first non-white author to chair the CWA. Vaseem ...
New Blood Dagger Discussion with Maxim
On October 12th at 7pm Maxim Jakubowski will be chairing a panel at Waterstones Piccadilly, featuring four of the five shortlisted authors for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger: Tim Baker, Bill Beverly, Jax Miller and Nicholas Searle, discussin...
New Frontiers in Forensics, Crime and Security: Forensic Outreach Conference
Royal Institution, Oct 18 Open to everyone, this event by Forensic Outreach is one the CWA is pleased to promote to crime writers and readers alike. Meet pioneering forensic scientists and detectives – the real-life versions of the characters yo...
CWA announces new Treasurer
Belatedly (but no less importantly) we are delighted to announce Andrew Subramaniam as the CWA Honorary Treasurer. Andrew Subramaniam is a partner in HW Fisher & Company’s media group. As well as advising numerous authors and journalists, he ha...
Murder in the Library!
Author Talk with Leye Adenle, Alison Bruce & James Carol Celebrate National Libraries Week with the launch of our new bi-monthly Crime Panel, where best-selling authors will visit Chiswick and Osterley Libraries. With the CWA Daggers due to be a...
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