Writing in the Time of Covid: Panel with Jan Carson, Jarred McGinnis and Saeida Rouass
Writing in the Time of Covid: Panel with Jan Carson, Jarred McGinnis and Saeida Rouass Writers Jan Carson, Jarred McGinnis and Saeida Rouass discuss how they've found writing during the current pandemic. Has the Covid era changed how they write, and...
Crime Cymru online festival is back!
Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Festival 2022 will be online, free to viewers, and include well-known national and international crime writers as well as featuring Welsh authors to cater to a range of tastes. At the festival, we will be showcasing stars of the ...
June is National Crime Reading Month
Libraries, booksellers, publishers and festivals are taking part in National Crime Reading Month this month, while crime writers are contributing videos and blogs to the dedicated site with more posted almost every day of June. National Crime Read...
Author benefits
Your benefits Visitors to our website can read all about the wide range of benefits we offer our members, but as an existing member you can find out how to make the most of yours here. Benefits summary Members' bulletin Red Herrings, plu...
CWA 2024 Conference, Brighton
CWA CONFERENCE 2024, BRIGHTON 19-21 APRIL This year’s conference takes place in beautiful Brighton and brings together our CWA community for a weekend of learning-centred activity in one of the UK’s most visited tourist hotspots. The 2024 con...
Private: Debut Dagger Longlists Advice
For all entrants to the Debut Dagger 2022. The longlist will be announced by Chair of the Judges Leigh Russell at an event by our sponsors ProWritingAid on Weds 20 April at 5pm. For details of how to register for this free online event, please see...
Libraries
Supporting libraries The places where many of us first discovered a love of books, and the places that for many form the centre of their reading experience, libraries are a national treasure. The CWA does not assume a political role – we leave tha...
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 ...
CWA Announce Longlists for Prestigious Crime Writing Daggers – SHORTLISTS TO BE ANNOUNCED 25 JULY
STOP PRESS: CWA Dagger Shortlists to be announced at a 6.30pm reception at Daunt’s bookshop, Cheapside, London EC2V 6AX on 25 July. Book your place: admin@thecwa.co.uk. Free entry. The Crime Writers Association announced the much anticipated lo...
“Killing People for Fun and Profit” a guest lecture by Val McDermid
The Literary Leicester Festival welcomes bestselling author Val McDermid cto Leicester discuss her writing, her inspirations and the fatal attraction of crime fiction. CWA Diamond Dagger recipient, Val McDermid, has sold over 15 million books to d...
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