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This year’s Debut Dagger longlist will be announced on Thursday 22 April at 7pm (UK time) as part of the ProWritingAid Crime Writer’s Week, a FREE online festival of crime writing. Sponsor of the Debut Dagger, ProWritingAid, invites you: We are thril...
Announcement dates for Debut Dagger 2021 
Opening Windows, by John Kennedy 
Third time lucky with the Debut Dagger, by Anna Caig 
What if? by D B Carew 
Sapere Books is looking for debut crime fiction 
How Entering the Debut Dagger Led to Gold, by M W Craven – Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger 2019
Returning to writing – shortlisted Debut Dagger writer J. Huw Evans tells how life got in the way of writing 
What a Difference a Dagger Makes: Debut Dagger winner Bill Crotty tells of doors that have opened since the award 
Trust your gut: how a Debut Dagger longlisting led to a publishing deal