CWA Member logos
CWA Member logos As a CWA member, you may display the membership logos here where appropriate (according to your membership status). Add them to your website and social media, use them when promoting appearances, and so on. So long as you remain a m...
Walter Mosley Awarded CWA Diamond Dagger 2023
Walter Mosley is the 2023 recipient of the highest honour in crime writing, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger. The CWA Daggers are now regarded by the publishing world as the foremost awards hosted in Britain for crime writing....
CWA welcome pack
CWA welcome packNew members are sent a welcome pack PDF when they join the CWA, to outline the benefits of membership and act as a handy guide to our activities and contacts. We invite all members, from recent to longstanding, to download the PDF ...
CWA Conference
For more details see the latest copy of Red Herrings or the members only website (for digital members). Location: Norwich...
Contact
Contact The CWA has a variety of contact points depending on the enquiry, so it’s very helpful if you can direct your message to the appropriate address. Please also remember that many of our officers are authors who volunteer their time, and allo...
C J Sansom Awarded Diamond Dagger
CJ Sansom has been announced as the recipient of the highest honour in British crime writing, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger. One of Britain’s bestselling historical novelists, Christopher John Sansom was born in 1952 in E...
Our Chapters
The CWA has members around the world. Our regional chapters help members to connect with other writers in the same geographical area. There are also international specialty chapters for nonfiction and neurodiverse authors. Our geographically-based...
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Making and Publishing Audiobooks
Byte the Book are running a breakfast seminar on making and publishing audiobooks. The seminar will be given by Duncan Honeyman, the senior commissioning editor for audio at Penguin Random House. The date is 26 September from 8.30am to 10.30am at th...
Criminal Critiques
What are Criminal Critiques? Criminal Critiques is the CWA’s critique service for aspiring crime fiction writers, to help you polish your writing and prepare your manuscript for submission to agents and publishers, or for competitions such as the ...
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