New Writing North and Northumbria University present Crime Story 2018
Saturday 19 May 2018, 10am-6pm, Newcastle upon Tyne Crime Story is a unique biennial event that brings together crime experts with crime writers and readers for a fascinating and inspiring one-day writing festival. Crime Story 2018 will be headline...
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...
Daggers announced in glittering gala dinner evening
M.W. Craven has won the CWA Gold Dagger for his novel The Puppet Show. The Daggers, which were announced (24 October) at a glittering awards ceremony at the Leonardo Royal Hotel, London, are regarded by the publishing world as the foremost British aw...
Agatha Christie Centenary Celebration
BIRTHDAY PARTY WILL CELEBRATE A CENTURY OF CHRISTIE CREATIVITY Diary date: Thursday 15 September 2016 Dame Agatha Christie’s home town marks her birthday and the 100th anniversary of the completion of her first crime no...
Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival
Brought to you online for the past two years, Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival is back with a bang from 4-9 October with a host of in person and online events at a new venue, Dun Laoghaire’s stunning dlr LexIcon Library ...
Chapters
Chapters We know that our members are based all around the world and we have established regional chapters to help our members connect with other writers. There are also speciality chapters for non-fiction and neurodiverse authors. If there is an...
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