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Dagger Awards to Carry Cash Prizes and Open to Authors to Self-Nominate  The CWA Daggers – synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century – is set to again award cash prizes beginning in 2023, for titles published and nominated in 2022. Detail of the amounts will be announced next year. The CWA is delighted to reinstate this tradition, thanks to renewed support and sponsorship. In the same year the CWA will accept Dagger nominations from authors themselves. Traditionally published authors who meet the eligibility criteria will be able to nominate their own titles for a Dagger, as will self-published authors who are members of the CWA. The new eligibility criteria follow the change of rules earlier this year to allow self-published authors who successfully demonstrate professionalism to become CWA members for the first time in its 68-year history. The move came after the CWA consulted its members, who voted with an 84% majority in favour to accept self-published authors. Maxim Jakubowski, Chair of the Crime Writers' Association, said: "The Daggers are assuredly the best and most accurate reflection of what's happening on the crime and mystery writing front. The time is right to reflect that prestige by again awarding a cash prize along with certain Daggers. It's also true that the publishing landscape has changed in recent years. Self-publishing has become a route for professional writers, and indeed there are many trailblazers in this field. It's important our awards recognise this, and of course if self-published authors can nominate their titles, then it's important we extend that right to eligible authors who are traditionally published, too." The awards remain open as normal to traditional publishers of the genre who are invited to nominate their authors' titles. A fifty per cent discount on the nomination fee applies to titles by CWA members, whether submitted by a publisher or author. Maxim added: "We continue to be committed to quality. Successful self-publishing requires the same professional approach that publishers take. Our aim is to ensure the Daggers stay relevant, accessible and open to all talent." A thriving, growing community with a membership encompassing authors of all ages and at all stages of their careers, the CWA is UK-based, yet attracts many members from overseas. It supports author members, as well as literary agents, publishers, bloggers and editors, through its own activities and through the Crime Readers' Association (CRA). The CRA distributes a free digital monthly newsletter showcasing CWA authors and related news to around 12,000 subscribers, while the CRA website provides readers with news and features by CWA members, as does the bimonthly ezine, Case Files. The CWA also supports unpublished writers, many of whom enter the Debut Dagger competition and the Margery Allingham Short Mystery competition. For authors wishing to enter the Debut Dagger competition, sponsored by ProWritingAid, they mustn't have had any fiction over 20,000 words of any genre traditionally published, or self-published in the last five years. The CWA's Dagger judging panels remain strictly independent and are refreshed every year. The organisation also supports libraries and booksellers, with two Library Champions and a Booksellers Champion, Elly Griffiths, as well as promoting its annual National Crime Reading Month in June. Eligibility restrictions apply on particular Dagger categories; entrants can check out the full guidelines on the CWA website. Ian Fleming Publishing, ALCS and ProWritingAid are regular sponsors of the Daggers; the CWA is very grateful for their support.
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| Crime Fiction, Policing and Racial Injustice Posted: 07 Nov 2021 01:00 PM PST Crime Fiction, Policing and Racial Injustice Wednesday 10 November 6pm UK; 1pm EST; 10am Pacific. This session will run for around 1.5 hours. ORGANISED BY THE CENTRE FOR THE AMERICAS, Queen's University Belfast @AmericasCentre https://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/cfta/events/UPCOMINGEVENTSandSEMINARS/ In this panel session, Frankie Bailey, a renowned criminal justice academic and crime novelist, Steph Cha, crime novelist and winner of the 2019 LA Book Prize, and academic and pop culture expert David Schmid discuss the capacities of crime fiction to critically reflect on the failures of policing in the US and the ongoing search for racial justice. The issue of whether a form or genre given over to the investigation of crime and that aims to give readers answers and resolutions can get to grips with the brokenness of the justice system will be discussed. As will the question of how to portray the police and policing in light of the killing of unarmed black men and women – and whether the traditional police procedural form is fit for purpose. The roundtable discussion will last for about an hour. In the final 30 minutes, Steph Cha will read from her 2019 prize-winning novel Your House Will Pay and will answer questions about it.  Frankie Y Bailey (SUNY Albany) Frankie is Professor of Criminal Justice in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs at SUNY Albany. As well as being a prolific academic whose work explores the intersections of crime, social history and popular culture, including Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters Crime and Detective Fiction (1991), she is the author of two separate crime fiction series, including a police procedural series featuring biracial police detective. Hannah McCabe, set in a near-future Albany: The Red Queen Dies (2013) and What the Fly Saw (2015). https://www.albany.edu/scj/faculty/frankie-bailey  Steph Cha Steph is the author of three crime novels featuring amateur sleuth and apprentice PI Juniper Song including Follow Her Home(2013). She is also the author of Your House Will Pay (2019), which examines the lasting consequences of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and shines a light at the contemporary injustices of policing and justice system. Your House Will Pay won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the California Book Award. Steph is a critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she served as noir editor, and is the current series editor of the Best American Mystery & Suspense anthology. http://stephcha.com/  David Schmid (SUNY Buffalo) David is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo and one of the foremost scholars of crime fiction and pop culture. His research focuses on Americans' unusual fascination with murder and murderers and the development of the popular culture of true crime in the U.S. He is the author of the ground-breaking study Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (U of Chicago Press 2005) as well as numerous edited books, anthologies and essays on crime fiction, violence, urban culture, horror and masculinity. http://www.buffalo.edu/news/experts/david-schmid-faculty-expert-pop-culture.html Chair: Andrew Pepper (Queen's University Belfast, a.pepper@qub.ac.uk) EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crime-fiction-policing-and-racial-injustice-tickets-198842943597  |
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