Author profile guide
Updating your Author Profile on the CWA website Your CWA author profile is a powerful way to reach readers, if you complete it properly. It will feature prominently in Google search results, and we always link to your profile when promoting you as a...
Dagger in the Library
Dagger in the Library The Dagger in the Library is a prize for a body of work by an established writer of crime fiction or non-fiction who has long been popular with borrowers from libraries. It also rewards authors who have supported libraries an...
UK’s biggest prize fund to celebrate literature in 2018 – Society of Authors awards open for entries
The Society of Authors starts the search for next year’s recipients of the UK’s biggest literary prize fund. The Society of Authors is inviting entries for its 2018 Authors’ Awards. Run by authors for authors, the prizes make up the UK’s bigg...
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...
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 ...
Escaping from Greece with Jason Monaghan
In an ideal world that should be ‘Escaping to Greece’, as like so many other Brits I’m just longing for some sunshine and warm sea. The closest I’ve come so far this pandemic is organising ‘Greek Nite’ for my family bubble, with kebabs, d...
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction 2022
Shortlisted
Thomas Morris
The Dublin Railway Murder
Penguin Random House / Harvill Secker
The Detective’s Journey by Luke Deckard
Joseph Campbell’s seminal book The Hero With A Thousand Faces explores the uncanny similarities between the world’s myths and religions and what they mean in a real-world context. Campbell’s book is rich in psychology and insight in...
Find an expert
Find an expert Many of our members generously offer their expertise on certain subjects – forensics, police procedure, historical periods, technology, and more – to other members who need help writing about them. You can search for them here, ei...
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