The Crime Writers’ Association

Reading Party with M.W. Craven: The Dead Ground

Reading Party with M.W. Craven: The Dead Ground Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a ...


Selling TV and Film Rights with Yasmin McDonald

Join us for the 2024 CWA Crime Writers’ Clinics! This event is free for CWA members and £15 for non-members. Thinking of joining? You can apply here. Nov 7th 7.00pm Selling Film and TV Rights: Yasmin McDonald  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e...


Reading Party with Greg Buchanan: Sixteen Horses

Reading Party with Greg Buchanan: Sixteen Horses Every now and again a book comes along with such buzz about it. Sixteen Horses is one of those and we’re proud to invite you to a Reading Party about this stunning debut. Near the dying English seas...


Alice Boatwright and Heather Redmond

University Book Store celebrates the release of Death and the Sisters by Heather Redmond, in an evening with Heather Redmond and Alice Boatwright. Book your free tickets here....


Paying the Bills: Financial Management for Writers. With Andrew Subramaniam and Ajay Jassal


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 ...


In Conversation with Abir Mukherjee & Amer Anwar

In Conversation with Abir Mukherjee & Amer Anwar Pen to Print partnered with the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation in 2020 to bring a variety of professional talks from Editors, Literary Agents and Writers. Abir and Amer know each other ‘from ...


An Evening with Cath Staincliffe

Celebrate National Crime Reading Month with award winning crime writer, Cath Staincliffe.   Cath is an award winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of TV Series Blue Murder. She published her first crime fiction novel, Looking for Trou...


Clapham Book Festival and Crimeland, London

Just what makes writers locate their stories where they do? Clapham Book Festival tackles murder and mayhem head-on and brings together two writers, Vaseem Khan and Mark Lawson, to explore their literary landscapes. As they assess in particular the i...


The Publishing Revolution: the New Hybrid Author with D Kirk and Melissa Addey 


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