Supporting crime writing
Supporting crime writing One of the major aims of the CWA is to support crime writing. We do this in many ways; some direct, others more subtle. Our endeavours put the CWA at the heart of the world of crime fiction and non-fiction within the UK, and...
Libraries
Supporting libraries The places where many of us first discovered a love of books, and the places that for many form the centre of their reading experience, libraries are a national treasure. The CWA does not assume a political role – we leave tha...
CWA Daggers Longlists announced for 2022
The 2022 longlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced. Created in 1955, the world-famous CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and...
Librarians Asked to Nominate Authors for CWA Dagger in the Library 2019
Libraries are now voting for the winner of the Dagger in the Library 2019, after Martin Edwards carried off the award in 2018. The CWA’s Dagger in the Library is a prize for a body of work by a crime writer that users of libraries particularly admi...
Publishers, agents, editors and bloggers
Publishers, agents, editors and bloggers We raise the profile of crime-writing, and the publishers and agents behind the books, with our Dagger awards, the most prestigious for crime fiction and non-fiction in the UK. For the majority of the Daggers...
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...
Alibis in the Archive
The world-renowned Gladstone Library on the North Wales/Cheshire border is to host a splendid feast of juicy crime writing dishes: Alibis in the Archive. The programme runs from the evening of Friday 9 June to Sunday 11 June 2017 and kicks off with ...
Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form
Equality and diversity monitoring The CWA is committed to ensuring that it is an inclusive organisation, open to all and reflective of the communities we serve, and that its events and communications are representative of, and welcoming to, al...
ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger
ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger The ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger (formerly the ILP John Creasey New Blood Dagger) is for the best crime novel by a first-time author of any nationality with their first novel of any kind published in the UK...
Debut Dagger Longlist Announcement
Each year, the Crime Writers' Association hosts the Daggers, our crime writing awards, which include the Debut Dagger. The award aims to support, promote, and celebrate crime writers of all kinds—both fiction and non-fiction—and of all ages, abil...
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