Emerging Author Dagger Rules
Rules and Submission Guidelines Emerging Author Dagger The Emerging Author Dagger (formerly the Debut Dagger), an international competition for the opening of an adult/YA crime novel and synopsis, is aimed at debut writers. The CWA defines a de...
Bookseller of the Month – Jan 2023, Newham Bookshop
Vaseem Khan visits Newham Bookshop and speaks to owner Vivian Archer - and gets a little starstruck. 743-745 Barking Road London E13 9ER https://www.newhambooks.co.uk/ There aren’t many bookshops in the UK run by a bona fide screen star. ...
CWA Daggers Announced
Chris Whitaker, Clare Mackintosh, Michael Robotham, Vaseem Khan and Peter May win 2021 CWA Daggers. The winners of the 2021 CWA Daggers, which honour the very best in the crime writing genre, have been announced. The prestigious Crime Write...
New Blood for CWA Daggers with Awards’ Sponsorship
The CWA Daggers – the genre’s oldest and most famous awards - has announced two new sponsors. The 2025 Dagger Awards sees the editorial consultancy Fiction Feedback sponsor the Emerging Author Dagger, and Morgen Witzel sponsor the Historical D...
Slaughter in Southwold
The Friends of Southwold Library present: Slaughter in Southwold, the Southwold Library Crime Writers Festival. Enjoy talks from authors including Reverend Richard Coles, Jane Casey, Nicci French, Elly Griffiths, Tom Hindle, Cara Miller, Jacquelin...
Escaping from Lockdown with JC Briggs
Much I have I travelled in the realms of gold … So wrote John Keats in his sonnet On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, which book took him to ‘goodly states and kingdoms.’ Reading took him to far-flung places where he would never go, and im...
Crime Authors at the Yeovil Literary Festival
The Yeovil Literary Festival is running from Thurs 28 Oct to Wed 3 Nov, and as part of the festival Yeovil Library are hosting 5 amazing crime authors, including CWA member Elly Griffiths. Tickets are £5 or £4 if you hold a Somerset Libraries card...
Bookshop of the Month – September 2022: The Oundle Bookshop
Joanna Patterson-Gordon of The Oundle Bookshop Talks to William Shaw You’ll find The Oundle Bookshop behind an impressive line of Georgian pillars on Market Place, which is where it’s been for a remarkable 99 years. It’s a traditional bo...
New CWA Anthology Published 22 February
The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has released a new collection of crime stories written by its members. Music of the Night, edited by Martin Edwards, invited CWA authors to submit short stories on the theme of music. An array of award-winnin...
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