Congrats to this year's winner of the Davitt Award for Best Crime Novel by Australian women (presented by Sisters in Crime), Dervla McTiernan’s novel, The Ruin. The winners in the other categories include:
Young Adult Novel: Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein
Children’s Novel: Wakestone Hall by Judith Rossell
Nonfiction: The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
Debut: Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
Readers’ Choice: The Lost Man by Jane Harper
See all the shortlisted titles here.
The shortlist has been announced for the inaugural CWA Dagger for the Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the Year. The award is the first new Dagger category created in over a decade. The finalists include:
Faber & Faber
Harper Fiction (HarperCollins)
HQ (HarperCollins)
No Exit Press (Oldcastle Books)
Orenda Books
Pushkin Vertigo (Pushkin)
Raven (Bloomsbury)
Congrats also to the 2019 Munsey Award Winner, which I missed last month (while on vacation), that was presented at PulpFest in Pittsburgh on August 17 to George Vanderburgh. Named for Frank A. Munsey, publisher of the first pulp magazine, the award recognizes someone who has "contributed to the betterment of the pulp community through disseminating knowledge, publishing, or other efforts to preserve and to foster interest pulp magazines."
The Celtic Noir Crime Writing Festival is set to hit Dunedin Saturday, October 12, and Sunday, October 13. Presented by the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies (CISS), Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, Dunedin Public Libraries, and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature, the event will features workshops, master classes, and Q&As led by Liam McIlvaney, Fiona Kidman, Majella Cullinane, Adrian McKinty, Vanda Symon, Liz Nugent, and Val McDermid.
The Popular Culture Association invites proposals for their upcoming annual conference to be held in Philadephia, Wednesday, April 15 – Saturday, April 18, 2020. The event's theme is "Mystery & Detective Fiction," and organizers welcome academic discussions on all aspects and periods of mystery and detective fiction, including history, criticism, and theory, as well as explorations of social justice, diversity, inclusivity, and other current trends in scholarship. Abtracts of 100 to 250 words outlining both your object of analysis and your primary argument are due by November 1, 2019. (HT to Shots Magazine)
The volume 37, no. 2 (2019) issue of Clues: The Journal of Detection has been published, which is a themed issue on interwar mysteries guest edited by Victoria Stewart (University of Leicester, UK). Articles include such topics as "Detecting Histories, Detecting Genealogies: The Origins of Golden Age Detective Fiction" and "Capital Punishment and Women in the British Police Procedural."
Do you think you an craft a crime-fiction plot in only half a dozen words? That’s the challenge in the third annual Six-Word Mystery Contest, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Entries must be received by midnight, October 31, 2019, and six-word novels can be entered in one or all five of the following categories: Hard-boiled or Noir; Cozy Mystery; Thriller Mystery; Police Procedural Mystery; and/or a mystery with Romance or Lust. If you need a hint, here's last year's winning entry (by Matthew Porter): "She took his name. For starters." (Hat to The Rap Sheet)
Writing for CrimeReads, Olivia Rutigliano remembered the "Gilded Age's Long-Lost Lady Detectives." In an era which restricted women's advancement, a handful of women beat the odds and became investigators.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is was contributed by Lauren Reynolds, and the most recent Beat to a Pulp story (which I'm also a little late noting), is "Scot" by Garnett Elliott.
In the Q&A roundup, Lesa Holstine interviewed Sara E. Johnson as they chatted about her first mystery, Molten Mud Murder, which is set in New Zealand; the Writers Who Kill's E. B. Davis chatted with police officer-turned author, Bernard Schaffer, about his latest thriller, An Unsettled Grave; CrimeReads spoke with Lisa Lutz, author of The Spellman Files; Ali Karim snagged debut novelist Gareth Rubin for the Shots Magazine blog to discuss alternate history novels and his book, Liberation Square; and Rob Hart talked with CrimeReads's Lisa Levy about ending his private eye series featuring PI Ash McKenna, as well as the juggernaut that his new book,The Warehouse, has become.
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