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Promote yourself Members can take advantage of our wide range of platforms to promote books, news and events, including our main CWA website, the Crime Readers’ Association (CRA) website and our regular monthly newsletters. Here are some of the wa...


The Meek Shall Inherit the Storyline – Talk

Best-selling crime novelist John Dean will give a talk looking at how conflict in the modern age drives crime fiction. John, whose books regularly feature in the best-selling charts on Amazon, is the creator of the DCI John Blizzard and DCI Jack Harr...


Whodunnit Dagger

Whodunnit Dagger The Whodunnit Dagger celebrates books where the sex, swearing, and bloodletting take place offstage--books that focus on the intellectual challenge at the heart of a good mystery, and which revolve around often quirky characters. Bo...


Thame Arts and Literature Festival: Alan Johnson in conversation with CWA member Dave Sivers

Alan Johnson’s childhood memoir This Boy was published in 2013. It won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and the Orwell Prize, Britain’s top political writing award. His second volume of memoirs Please Mr Postman (2014) won the Nati...


Dagger in the Library 2022

Shortlisted


Cath Staincliffe


Dagger in the Library 2022

Shortlisted


Lin Anderson


Press & media enquiries

Press & media enquiries We love to hear from the media and will endeavour to find the information you require, get quotes or put you in direct touch with authors or relevant CWA officers. First base is Cause PR, our PR agency. Contact Ann Cha...


Crime #1 at Havering Literary Festival

Charlie Flowers was born in Eastern Europe sometime in the late Sixties and arrived with his family in Britain in 1975. After training as a journalist in London he had a varied career as reporter, roadie, truck driver and record label boss. In the la...


Dark Stories and Disturbing Tales with Emily Koch, Jane Corry, Jane Shemilt and Melanie Golding

These best-selling authors, all writers of powerful thrillers, discuss the art of writing and why psychological suspense is so popular during these turbulent times. How do you write a thriller that makes you stay up all night, feverishly turning t...


CWA Dagger Results

The Crime Writers’ Association have revealed the winners of the 2015 Dagger Awards at their prestigious ceremony in London. Authors and publishers gathered at the Hotel Russell on Tuesday 30th June for the presentation, which marks the end of C...


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