CWA Dagger Awards Terms and Conditions of Entry
CWA Daggers Terms and Conditions of Entry Three categories of people can nominate a title for the CWA Daggers. Approved publishers Traditionally published authors whose book or title is published (not merely distributed) in the UK ...
CrimeFest
The hugely successful international crime writing convention returns to Bristol for a 10th year. The team have published an anthology in celebration of this milestone and are looking forward to a fabulous event with Martina Cole as a Featured Author....
National Crime Reading Month off to a blazing start!
National Crime Reading Month kicked off with simultaneous launches in London, Belfast and Edinburgh - appropriately in one of Waterstones flagship stores in Piccadilly; No Alibis, an independent bookshop, and in Edinburgh Central Library. In Londo...
CWA Launch High Profile National Crime Reading Month
Ian Rankin, Anthony Horowitz, Elly Griffiths and Vaseem Khan announced as new ambassadors for NCRM The Crime Writers’ Association launches National Crime Reading Month (NCRM) this June – a major initiative designed to celebrate the genre and g...
After 20 years, would-be crime novelists find it more rewarding than ever to enter the CWA Debut Dagger Competition
Amended 8.12.17 The CWA Debut Dagger for the opening of a crime novel, established in 1998, is renowned within the crime writing world as a way for unpublished authors to get known, with former winners and shortlisted entrants going on to win publish...
Newcastle Noir: Spirits in the Material World
Newcastle Noir is back! A panel discussion about what happens when the crime genre meets ghosts… Featuring authors SJI Holliday, William Ryan and Anna Mazzola, chaired by author Ian Skewis. Ian Skewis Ian Skewis is the author of bestsell...
Handwriting Expert & Novelist Sheila Lowe on Clark Rockefeller
Sheila Lowe - Book Carnival virtual signing and presentation August 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PACIFIC TIME When he kidnapped his little girl off the street in Boston, the name “Clark Rockefeller” became known nationwide. Shortly thereafter, he ...
Debut Dagger
Emerging Author Dagger (Debut Dagger) Announcements Congratulations to our 2024 Shortlist Authors! See below for details. Winner: Dagger Awards Dinner, evening of Thursday 4 July, Leonardo City Hotel, London. All announcements will also appe...
Sheila Lowe on Wrong Place, Write Crime Podcast
September 9: Wrong Place, Write Crime podcast with Frank Scalise: https://www.frankzafiro.com/wrong-place-write-crime/ Sheila Lowe will be Frank’s guest, talking about her tortuous path to publication—from handwriting expert to mystery w...
National Crime Reading Month
#PickUpAPageTurner NCRM has been relaunched – visit CrimeReading.com today! ...
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