CWA Dagger Awards Longlists Announced
The 2021 longlists for the prestigious CWA Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime writing genre, have been announced. The world-famous Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre, and have been synony...
Meet Author Charlie Garratt, Creator of Inspector James Given
Telford & Wrekin Libraries is holding a free event on Zoom with Charlie Garratt - author of the Inspector James Given novels. It takes place on Wednesday 17 March at 7pm. An opportunity to find out more about what inspired Charlie to become an a...
AGM 2023
AGM 2023 Our AGM will take place on Saturday 20 May at 10am via Zoom. In recent years these meetings have lasted well under an hour. Here is the meeting link: Time: May 20, 2023 10:00 AM London https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87610906851?pwd=d...
Evesham Library: Reading Crime Fiction
Jacquie Rogers and Linda Mather have teamed up to present an evening of reading and writing crime at Evesham library, part of Worcestershire libraries county-wide celebration of crime reading in June. We'll be talking about how crime fiction is a por...
CWA Daggers – Shortlists Announced
The Crime Writers’ Association announced the shortlists for this year’s Dagger awards for crime writing at an at an evening drinks reception held at Waterstones Piccadilly on Wednesday 26 July. The CWA Daggers, which are the probably the awards c...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Anne Coates
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. My work as a journalist and editor working on magazines and national newspapers as well as abridging books for Reader’s Digest has provided plenty of inspiration for my crime...
An Introduction to Crime Fiction – Writing workshop
Best-selling crime novelist John Dean is to run an Introduction to Crime Fiction creative writing workshop. John, author of 17 novels, including the recently-published Death List, is published by London-based The Book Folks and is the creator of DCI ...
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...
CWA Responds to Incident at Conference
"It has come to my attention that at the recent CWA conference, some members behaved in a way that was not in line with our aim to be an organisation that is welcoming to all writers, no matter their background or experience. This is incredibly disap...
CWA Conference York 2023
An Overview by Matthew Booth The old adage says that time flies when you’re having fun and, like many old sayings, it is true. And that probably explains why this year’s conference, held primarily in the Park Inn by Radisson in York, seemed to f...
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