The Crime Writers’ Association

Mad or Bad Workshop with Barbara Nadel

Mad or Bad Workshop with Barbara Nadel Come along to this workshop to find out what it means to be mad or bad and whether wickedness exists? How does the law and psychiatry decide whether someone who has committed a crime was sane or mentally unwel...


Paying the Bills: Financial Management for Writers. With Andrew Subramaniam and Ajay Jassal


In Conversation with Abir Mukherjee & Amer Anwar

In Conversation with Abir Mukherjee & Amer Anwar Pen to Print partnered with the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation in 2020 to bring a variety of professional talks from Editors, Literary Agents and Writers. Abir and Amer know each other ‘from ...


Clapham Book Festival and Crimeland, London

Just what makes writers locate their stories where they do? Clapham Book Festival tackles murder and mayhem head-on and brings together two writers, Vaseem Khan and Mark Lawson, to explore their literary landscapes. As they assess in particular the i...


My Life in Crime – Simon Michael

Come and listen to the tales of the crime writer who is frequently called “the British John Grisham”. Taking from his years practising as a barrister, working at the Old Bailey and other criminal courts, Simon has written the best-selling C...


The Publishing Revolution: the New Hybrid Author with D Kirk and Melissa Addey 


Noirwich Crime Writing Festival

Noirwich celebrates the reading and writing of crime fiction. In addition to bringing together some of today's top crime writing talent, the festival, associated with the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Programme, looks at the crime genr...


Mel McGrath – The Guilty Party

You did nothing. That doesn’t mean you’re innocent. On a night out, four friends witness a stranger in trouble. They decide to do nothing to help. Later, a body washes up on the banks of the Thames – and the group realises that ignoring the w...


Barbara Nadel – Displaced and Incorruptible

Displaced Irving Levy is a man with few roots and, now that he is terminally ill, is anxious to find anyone to whom he can leave his considerable property. When he learns that there may be more to the disappearance of his younger sister, who disappea...


St. Hilda’s Crime Fiction Weekend 2024

A Dance to the Music of Crime: the artful path to murder A crime fiction weekend like no other – from its beginnings, St Hilda’s Crime Fiction Weekend has drawn readers from all over the world to Oxford to hear their favourite authors explore ...


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