Sisters in Crime announced that the 2018 winner of the annual Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award is Mia Manansala. The award, which honors the memory of pioneering African-American crime fiction author Eleanor Taylor Bland with a $1,500 grant to an emerging writer of color, was created in 2014 to support SinC’s vision statement that the organization should serve as the voice for excellence and diversity in crime writing.
Killer Nashville announced the finalists for the Silver Falchion Awards in several categories, including Best Action Adventure, Best Cozy Mystery, Best Juvenile, Best Mystery, Best Nonfiction, Best Procedural, Best Short Story, Best Suspense, and Best Thriller. The winners will be announced at the annual Killer Nashville conference awards dinner on August 25.
The Edinburgh Book Festival returns August 11-27 with a stellar lineup of crime fiction authors in various talks and conversation. Participating authors include Mark Billingham, Stuart MacBride, Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Jo Nebso, Ian Rankin, Ruth Ware, and many more.
Scottish crime writer Val McDermid will also be heading to the University of Otago next year for a visiting professor role in the humanities division from 2019-2021. For each of the three years of her role, Prof McDermid will spend up to eight weeks a year in Dunedin, where she will be attached to the university's centre for Irish and Scottish studies. McDermid also holds fellowships from the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Parade Magazine compiled a list of "20 Chilling Thrillers by Women to Read This Year."
Saga Cruises has introduced three Canary Islands itineraries including the 14-night "Sunshine in the Canaries" onboard Saga Sapphire, departing Southampton November 13, 2018. With a theme around crime, the guest star is TV detective Stephen Tompkinson (DCI Banks), and passengers can join a mystery-themed book club and watch screenings of crime movies as well as pay visits to the haunts of J.K. Rowling and Agatha Christie. Four Canary Islands are featured: El Hierro, La Palma, Lanzarote and Tenerife plus Leixoes and Madeira, in Portugal.
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The latest poem at the 5-2 crime poetry weekly is "That Alternate Universe" by Nancy Scott.
In the Q&A roundup, Sophie Hannah took the New York Times' Book Review "By the Book" challenge; Dan Mallory, a/k/a AJ Finn, spoke with New Zealand's Noted ezine about the runaway success of his debut thriller, The Woman in the Window; and Writers' Digest chatted with Walter Mosley about characterization and the legacy of Devil in a Blue Dress.
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