CWA: Events
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Harrogate Crime Writing Festival 2008 Reading Festival of Crime Writing Bouchercon ® 2008
JULY
- Saturday 5th July
- 10.30 am - 12.00 noon: Pauline Rowson at The Hayling Island Bookshop to meet readers and to sign books (as part of the celebrations for Independent Booksellers Week)
- 10.00 am - 4.00 pm: “Write a crime novel in a day” with Danuta Reah at Ashborne literary festival
- Tuesday 8th July, 7.30pm
- Ann Cleeves in conversation with Ros Schwarz, Stephen Sartarelli and Peter Millar, three of the translators whose work has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.
Lit & Phil 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE
For more information, or to reserve a seat, please telephone (0191) 232 0192, e-mail or drop in at the library.
Harrogate 2008
Harrogate Crime Writing Festival July 17 to 20, 2008.
Members attending include: Mark Billingham, Ann Cleeves, Stella Duffy, Martin Edwards, Meg Gardiner, Peter Guttridge, Quintin Jardine, Val McDermid, Martyn Waites and Laura Wilson.
- Tuesday 22nd July, 7.00 pm
- Michael Jecks at Belhus Library, South Ockendon
Talk organised by Thurrock Libraries as part of National Year of Reading
AUGUST
- Saturday 23rd August, 11.30am - 12.30pm
- Diane Janessigning copies of her book Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train Robbery in Waterstones, Fremlin Walk Shopping Centre, Maidstone.
- Sunday 24th August, 11.00am - 4.00pm
- Diane Janes will be signing copies of Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train Robbery at Ightham Mote to mark the centenary of the Luard murder.
Usual admission charges apply, (National Trust members free entry). - Friday 29th - Sunday 31st August
- Ann Cleeves at Kristianstad Book Festival, Southern Sweden
- Saturday August 30, 2.00 pm
- Sheila Quigley, Ken McCoy and Martyn Waites, Bookbarn, Newbottle Street, Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham
SEPTEMBER
Reading Festival of Crime Writing
Reading Festival of Crime Writing, Friday 12th - Sunday 14th September
Members appearing include Mark Billingham, Meg Gardiner, Sophie Hannah, John Harvey, Michael Jecks, Peter Lovesey, Stuart Pawson, Cath Staincliffe and Laura Wilson. Programme includes:
- Friday 12th September, 6.00pm: Michael Jecks
and on Saturday 13th:
- Workshop: Writing the Detectives with Cath Staincliffe, Oscar Wilde Room, Town Hall 10.30-12, £6/£5 Workshop for adults. 12 places
- Talk by Stuart Pawson: A Writer's Life. Silverthorne Room, Town Hall, 10.30-12 £4/£3
- Deadly Evidence Workshop with Cath Staincliffe, Reading Central Library. 2.30-4p.m Free event for teens aged 11-16. 12 places.
- Masterclass: Writing a Crime Novel with Stuart Pawson, Waterhouse Room, Town Hall, 2.30-4p.m £4/£3
- Tuesday 9th September, 7.00 pm
- Sheila Quigley at Whitley Bay Library, Park Road, Whitley Bay, NE26 1EJ.
- Wednesday 17th September 2.00 pm -3.30 pm
- Cath Staincliffe, reading from her latest novel Missing at Denton Library, Tameside, Manchester.
Details 0161 336 8234 - Friday 19th September
- Medieval Murderers at Coughton Court, Warwickshire for the Throckmorton Literary Festival
- Saturday 27th September, 10.30am - 12.00
- Pauline Rowson talks about her marine mystery crime and thriller novels at Havant Arts Centre, as part of the Havant Literary Festival.
Tickets £5.00. - Sunday 28th September 3.00pm
- Ann Cleeves Brought to Book at New Canaan Library Connecticut
Contact Cynde Lahey at the library
OCTOBER
- Wednesday 8th October, 2.00 pm.
- Sheila Quigley at Walker Library Welbeck Road, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA - celebrating Walker Library's hundredth birthday!
Bouchercon ® 2008 - "Charmed to Death"
October 9 - 12, 2008, Baltimore, Maryland
More information on the Bouchercon 2008 website.
CWA members attending include Ann Cleeves and Martyn Waites.
- Saturday 11th October
- Sheila Quigley leads her murder tour round Houghton Feast.
- Saturday 18 October, afternoon
- Michael Jecks at the Town Hall, Morley, as part of Morley Literature Festival
DECEMBER
- Friday 12th December 2008, 2.30pm
- Michael Jecks talks to the East Devon branch of the Devonshire Association, at the Arts Centre, Sidmouth
FEBRUARY 2009
- Tuesday 10th February 2009, 2.00 pm.
- Sheila Quigley at Wallsend Library Ferndale Ave, Wallsend, NE28 7NB.