The Crime Writers’ Association

Make Crime Pay – thriller and crime fiction day

Join us for a packed day of online workshops, talks, interviews with an exciting range of Crime Writing authors. Online via Google Meet As crime and thriller fiction enjoy unparalleled popularity, join us for a packed day of online workshops, t...


Reading Party will William Dean


Stretch Theatre Company: Intended Victim

A new thriller written & directed by Simon Mawdsley. A tense, psychological thriller, with an all-female cast. Five police detectives gather to commemorate the death of one of their colleagues, but one of them is planning a murder. The question ...


CWA Daggers Open

The CWA Daggers 2016 are now open via our new, dedicated, website www.cwadaggers.co.uk...


How Did I Get Ready for Entering the Debut Dagger? by Sherryl Clark

Well, first I had to get past my nerves! I’d written mostly children’s books, and to be honest, my first couple of drafts of my novel received the feedback, ‘sounds too much like a young adult novel’. Oops. I knew that really I needed to do a...


The CWA Remembers David Stuart Davies

The CWA has lost one of its most loyal members in David Stuart Davies, a novelist, editor, and playwright who achieved an international reputation as an expert on Sherlock Holmes. David was born in Huddersfield, the town where he lived for much of...


Mick Herron and Sarah Hilary – London Rules and Come and Find Me

Wells Festival of Literature: Literary Festival in Somerset This gripping new event brings three brilliant thriller writers together for a nail-biting session. Mick Herron’s Jackson Lamb spy novel series has gained many accolades with the first Slo...


Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation

Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation Sponsored in honour of Dolores Jakubowski. This award is for crime novels (defined by the broadest definition to include thrillers, suspense novels and spy fiction) as long as the book was not originally wr...


Debut Dagger Tips: Joanne Spain

Joanne Spain’s life was changed by her decision to enter the CWA Debut Dagger competition in 2013. She credits her experience with the CWA contest with helping to shape her now-flourishing writing career. Now, having secured a two-book deal with Qu...


LAUNCH OF DEATH AT WOLF’S NICK

Join award winning author Diane Janes at the official launch of her new book 'Death at Wolf's Nick'. The event will take place in The Memorial Hall, Otterburn, Northumberland, scene of the original inquest into the death of Evelyn Foster, whose murde...


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