Private: Latest Tips for Winning the Debut Dagger
CWA Coordinator and Debuts maestro Dea Parkin has some top tips for Debut Dagger entrants: You’re going over your Debut Dagger entry in the final days before the deadline. What might you consider revising to make it stand out and shine? Ens...
London Chapter Meeting
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Crime Mystery Trail
The Infamous Criminal mastermind ‘The Quizzer’ has stolen a pie that was left unattended overnight in a van. It’s your job to follow his crumb trail and answer the questions given by his devious goons, aka ‘The Categories’, to find out wher...
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June is National Crime Reading Month
Events related to reading crime fiction and non-fiction are taking place up and down the country in June. CWA members are talking about their novels and their lives in crime, hosting seminars, signing books and taking part in literary festivals. To ...
Sponsorship packages
Sponsor a CWA Dagger The Daggers were established in 1955 to celebrate the very best in crime writing. More than half a century later they’re still recognised as the most prestigious crime-writing awards in the UK, and renowned across the globe as...
Seven Writing Tips from Leigh Russell
Chair of the CWA Debut Dagger judges, Leigh Russell, has sold well over a million books. Writer’s Block The best cure for writer’s block is a deadline. If you’re not fortunate enough to have an external deadline set by a publisher, you can ...
Debut Dagger Competition ends
The CWA Debut Dagger Competition for 2014 is closed. We are now busy ensuring all of the entries are logged, referenced and sent to our teams of readers whose job it is to consider all submissions and to draw up the shortlist. This year our judging p...
CWA Dagger Winners to be Announced at Awards on Oct 25
For readers of crime – now officially the UK’s most popular genre of fiction – the CWA Daggers are the book awards to really sharpen your appetite. Ten Daggers are given away at a glittering black-tie dinner and the cream of the publishing indu...
Diamond Sponsorship Package
Diamond Sponsorship Package - Diamond DaggerSponsoring the Diamond Dagger provides the following benefits: 1. The sponsor’s name and logo appears on all official Daggers literature and communications, as well as relevant website promotions and so...
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