The Crime Writers’ Association

Guilty Parties

The CWA is pleased to announce the publication this month by Severn House of the latest anthology of the Crime Writers’ Association, Guilty Parties. Martin Edwards has been editing the CWA anthology since the mid-Nineties, and it’s always...


Book launch: ‘The Sinner’ by Caroline England

Join Caroline England to celebrate her latest psychological suspense, the vicarage-based tingler The Sinner. Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future. Every confession has a price. Read more about Caroline's inspiration for The Sinner on ...


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 ...


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...


CWA New Anthology released

“The short story is alive and well in England, judging by this Crime Writers’ Association anthology assembled by Martin Edwards” – Publishers Weekly, 2nd June 2014 The latest CWA fiction anthology, Guilty Parties, published by...


Putting the Noir into Norwich: A New Crime Writing Festival

Putting the Noir into Norwich: A New Crime Writing Festival 10th – 14th September The Crime Writers’ Association is delighted to be collaborating with University of East Anglia, Waterstones and Writers’ Centre Norwich to create a deadly...


Flappers, fops and murder: writing crime fiction in the jazz age

Newcastle author Fiona Veitch Smith, whose debut historical crime novel, The Jazz Files, has been shortlisted for this year’s Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger Award, will be reading from The Jazz Files and her latest book in the Poppy De...


An Evening with Jonathan Whitelaw

On Wednesday, 15 May, at 6.30pm, join award-winning author Jonathan Whitelaw at Waterstones Carlisle for an evening of questions, book chat and everything else.  The event celebrates the launch of Jonathan's new book, The Concert Hall Killer, the la...


Norfolk Noir

With Harry Brett, Graeme Cameron, Elly Griffiths and Elodie Harper £8 (conc £7 / students £6) Book online https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/spektrix/event-detail/?WebEventId=norfolk-noir18 or call 01603 877177 Noirwich Crime Writing Festi...


Launch of MW Craven’s Fifth Washington Poe novel

Gold Dagger-winner M W Craven is launching The Botanist, the fifth Washington Poe novel, at the Old Fire Station, Carlisle on 1 June 2022. Starts at 7pm, bar opens at 6.30. Pop-up bookshop. Free entry, not-free bar. ‘Rattling along at breakn...


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