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I'm delighted that once again I am to be involved in the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) initiatives for 2011. These include National Crime Writing Week , formerly National Crime Fiction Week, which will run between June 13 and 19, 2011. The name change is designed to encompass both non-fiction and fiction.  The nationwide celebration of crime writing will see the culmination of the CWA Young Crime Writers' Competition, which was run by libraries and the CWA this year and attracted 600 entries nationwide. I was the CWA judge for entries on the South Coast of England  and will once again judge entries for the region in 2011. It was a tough competition to judge because some of the entries were outstanding. I'm looking forward to seeing what next year brings. In addition, during National Crime Writing Week, members of the CWA, including yours truly, will be taking part in events and workshops. There'll be more about events, National Crime Writing ...

I’ve been judging the entries for the Young Crime Writers’ Competition organised by the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) of Great Britain , (of which I am a member), and what a tough job. I am one of the judges for the Southern Area Awards to find the South’s best young crime writer who will go forward for a national prize to be announced during National Crime Fiction Week, June 14-20 . It's been incredibly difficult whittling down the entries to ten. The competition was aimed at writers aged up to 18 and stories were submitted via participating libraries across the UK in January and February with a word limit of 1,000. Participating libraries for my area in the south of England were libraries in Portsmouth, Southampton, the Isle of Wight, and the larger branches in West Sussex, which included: Bognor Regis, Burgess Hill, Chichester, Crawley, Haywards Heath, Horsham, Littlehampton, Shoreham, Storrington and Worthing. There were some great entries and fascinating sto...

A nationwide celebration of crime writing is to take place in the UK 14-20 June 2010 under the banner of  National Crime Fiction Week . It is an initiative from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain (CWA) to help promote and raise the profile of crime fiction, which is already one of the most popular genres in the UK. Crime fiction encompasses a vast array of novels from cosy murders, to gruesome hard boiled stuff, from historical to romantic suspense, thrillers, private detective, police procedurals and probably lots more in between.  My novels  In For The Kill and In Cold Daylight   are classed as thrillers while the marine mystery series of crime novels featuring my flawed and rugged hero, Inspector Andy Horton, are detective police procedurals.  They are not gruesome, because I'm not a fan of reading gruesome crime novels myself, neither are they full of endless descriptions, but are fast-paced, and, I am pleased to sa...

National Crime Fiction Week is taking place in 2010 for the first time.  The Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain (CWA), of which I am a member, is organising a celebration of crime writing during the week of 14-20 June 2010.  It also coincides with Independent Booksellers Week in the UK. During the week members of the CWA, including yours truly, will take part in readings, discussions, readers' group events and workshops all over the country. So keep an eye out here for my events or on my official web site at http://www.rowmark.co.uk/ The crime genre is very broad so there should be something for every crime fiction fan.