The Crime Writers’ Association

Private: Dagger Awards to Carry Cash Prizes and Open to Authors to Self-Nominate from 2023

The CWA Daggers – synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century – is set to again award cash prizes beginning in 2023, for titles published and nominated in 2022. Detail of the amounts will be announced next year. The CWA is delig...


Bookshop of the Month – March 2022: Warwick Books

In Conversation with Vaseem Khan Warwick Books, located a stone’s throw from ancient Warwick Castle, was established in 2004 by Keith and Frances Smith. Today, the shop is run by Mog and Pauline Giacomelli-Harris, a book-loving couple, who moved...


CWA Conference – York 2023

Booking has now opened for the CWA Conference 2023 to be held in York, 21 – 23 April. This is an opportunity for CWA members, old and new, to meet face to face and have some criminally good fun! It will be held at the Raddison Park Inn Hotel, nestl...


Future crime: Detection and prevention

The talk will discuss whether artificial intelligence will ever be able to predict a crime before it happens, how future technology might help prevent and fight crime and how we will ensure that any new technology of techniques will not impinge on pe...


Glenis Wilson – Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery)

Join Glenis on June 4th at Southwell Racecourse to discuss his latest Horse Racing Mystery in the Harry Radcliffe Series: No.4, entitled - 'DEAD HEAT' published by Severn House Publishers. Jump jockey Harry Radcliffe is forced to turn reluctant sle...


Handwriting Expert & Novelist Sheila Lowe on Clark Rockefeller

Sheila Lowe - Book Carnival virtual signing and presentation August 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PACIFIC TIME When he kidnapped his little girl off the street in Boston, the name “Clark Rockefeller” became known nationwide. Shortly thereafter, he ...


Glenis Wilson – Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery)

Join Glenis on May 17th at North Shore Hotel to discuss his latest Horse Racing Mystery in the Harry Radcliffe Series: No.4, entitled - 'DEAD HEAT' published by Severn House Publishers. North Shore Hotel is a very special place for Glenis as he wr...


Glenis Wilson – Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery)

Join Glenis on from 2nd - 3rd November at Lowdhams, to discuss his latest Horse Racing Mystery in the Harry Radcliffe Series: No.4, entitled - 'DEAD HEAT' published by Severn House Publishers. Jump jockey Harry Radcliffe is forced to turn reluctant...


Glenis Wilson – Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery)

Join Glenis on Saturday 11th May at Bingham Library to discuss his latest Horse Racing Mystery in the Harry Radcliffe Series: No.4, entitled – ‘DEAD HEAT’ published by Severn House Publishers. Jump jockey Harry Radcliffe is forced to turn rel...


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