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Well this is exciting! Thanks @The_CWA !
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📖 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Martin Edwards with the revised and expanded edition of ‘The Golden Age of Murder’!
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The CWA is proud to announce the longlist for the 2025 Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition! Congratulations, authors, and best of luck in the next round!
Recently I found out I’d won 🥈 in a short story competition; I couldn’t make it to the award ceremony but maybe that was a good thing as now I have a recording of one of my literary heroes, Simon Brett, reading my story at the ceremony! #SimonBrett #shortstory #detectionclub
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Poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn, the first woman in Britain to earn a living as a professional writer, has been honoured with a new statue in Canterbury, unveiled earlier today by HM The Queen.
Behn is buried in the Abbey cloisters, where her gravestone is inscribed with the words, 'Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality'.
Read more about her extraordinary life: westminster-abbey.org/abbey-…
ALT The gravestone of Aphra Behn, which reads: MRS APHRA BEHN DYED APRIL 16 A.D. 1689. Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality.
ALT An engraved portrait of Aphra Behn
Queen Camilla is to visit Canterbury to unveil a state of Aphra Behn, the first woman to earn a wage as a professional writer.
Tap below to read more: bbc.in/4h2Bfxv
I came across this recently in Patricia Highsmith's 'Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction' and it made my day, as my first mystery story is also being published in @EQMM! A huge thank-you to @medwardsbooks for encouraging me to submit it!
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The 10 best crime and thriller books of 2024, according to @BarryForshaw3 and @adamlebor: on.ft.com/4fS0K4v
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Lovely to remember Phyllis yesterday, and celebrate one of her finest novels, reissued this month @FaberBooks
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Normally, when we say ‘it was a different time’ we mean ‘it was a horribly racist and sexist time’. But today, as a pleasant change, I am going to use it to mean ‘it was a time when they covered up their telephones with big black velvet cats.’
ALT Quote from an Agatha Christie short story “With a swift movement, the woman snatched up a big black velvet cat which served as a cover for the telephone.” I like that she did it ‘with a swift movement’. No doubt born of long practice.
Woohoo, made the longlist! 🥳
The time has come to announce the longlist for this year’s Raven Short Story Contest!
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#shortstorycontest #shortfictioncontest #amwriting
I’m not sure what I love more - that there’s a World Conker Championship or that someone would care so much about winning, he’d smuggle in a steel conker theguardian.com/sport/2024/o…
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Hercule Poirot had it exactly right: stay warm, ride trains, keep a mug of hot cocoa on the night stand and pick the sort of career where people regularly invite you to visit their lavish country estates
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1978: Barry Norman delivers his critical verdict on Grease, a new musical starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
Unexpected hoard from the Utrecht book fair: 9 green Penguins for €7 😍 @ShedunnitShow
Happy to see that Utrecht advertises its library like the gangsters’ secret lair in a 1940s Bugs Bunny cartoon
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#OnThisDay in 1890 'Queen of Crime' Agatha Christie was born. Our favourite story has to be 'The Body in the Library'.
