CWA Featured Bookseller – Books on the Hill
Books On The Hill 1 Holywell Hill St Albans AL1 1ER www.books-on-the-hill.co.uk William Shaw speaks to owner Antonia Mason St Alban’s bookshop Books On The Hill is a shop that looks as if it’s been in its location on Holywell Hill a lon...
Kemptown Bookshop
Cathy Hayward of Kemptown Bookshop talks to Elly Griffiths Cathy Hayward is only the third owner of Kemptown Bookshop, Brighton’s oldest independent bookstore. She was a long-time fan of the shop, which has been on St George’s Road since 1976,...
The Life of Crime, with Martin Edwards
Martin Edwards won the highest honour in UK crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger, for his outstanding contribution to the genre. He is President of the Detection Club, a former Chair of the CWA, consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics a...
Bookseller of the Month: October 2022 – Richard Reynolds
As part of the new CWA Bookshops Champion initiative, we want to celebrate bookshops and booksellers, because we believe they don’t just sell our books – they bring our streets alive. This month there’s a special CWA Bookseller of the Month ...
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...
The Best Bit of Writing Advice I Was Ever Given by Morgan Cry
Gordon Brown aka Morgan Cry When I signed a two-book deal with Polygon back in 2019 under the new name of Morgan Cry, I was ecstatic. I delivered both books to the publisher by late 2019 and thought, what do I do now? I knew that there was editing a...
Bookshop of the Month – July 2022: Booka Bookshop
In conversation with Vaseem Khan Booka Bookshop 26-28 Church Street Oswestry Shropshire SY11 2SP Tel: 01691 662244 www.bookabookshop.co.uk Behind Tim Morris’s shoulder is a framed photo of Shane Warne, the global cricketing icon who...
Northern Ireland is Set for NCRM 2024
PRESS RELEASE The Crime Writers Association, National Crime Reading Month NI Crime Writers team up with Libraries NI and local bookstores to celebrate National Crime Reading Month with a host of events across the province throughout June. Fo...
CWA Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition – Winner Announced
The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the winner of its Margery Allingham Short Mystery Prize. Camilla Macpherson beat strong competition with her short story, ‘Heartbridge Homicides’. Camilla lives in The Hague in the Nether...
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Join the CWA Who can join? We offer full membership for those in the UK and overseas who have had published a full length work of crime fiction or non-fiction, and provisional membership for those who have a contract from a recognised publishing ho...
