The 37th Annual Publishing Triangle Awards were held at The New School in New York City last week with a celebration of LGBTQ+ literary excellence. With ten categories, this year’s ceremony spotlighted some of the most powerful voices in queer literature published in the previous year, including Margot Douaihy, winner of the Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ Crime Writing. Previous winners of the Hansen Award (established in 2023), recognizing an outstanding work of crime fiction or nonfiction, include Val McDermid in 2023 and J.M. Redmann in 2024.
The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Colorado Gold Rush Literary Awards Contest is accepting submissions. The awards are a way to offer encouragement and opportunity to all writers in a variety of ways and also to support diverse and marginalized voices. If you are an unpublished writer of commercial novel-length fiction, this is your chance to win a prize, get quality feedback, and have your work seen by literary agents and editors. The submission deadline is May 19. Last year's Mystery/Thriller winner was The Almost Death of Silla Foster by Becky Munyon.
A quartet of great crime fiction conferences will happen this weekend on both sides of the Atlantic. On the European side, we have the Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Festival in Aberystwyth, Wales, with various panels, a Noir at the Bar, and the presentation of the CRIME CYMRU First Novel Prize in both English and Welsh; plus Skulduggery in Stowmarket in the UK will feature talks by six best-selling and award-winning crime and thriller novelists. On the U.S. side, the West Coast hosts the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books with several crime fiction-themed panels and the announcement of the 2025 Book Awards winners; while the East Coast has Malice Domestic in Bethesda, Maryland, with a weekend of author panels and the unveiling of the Agatha Award winners.
Our Friday, June 13th, a Women In Noir event will be held at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, New York, featuring an immersive multimedia program with readings by acclaimed bestselling crime and thriller fiction writers Margot Douaihy, Jode Millman, and Julia Dahl, in conversation with NYC Writers Studio’s Cynthia Weiner, and TownSquare Media’s Jackie Corley.
As F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby turns 100, Chistopher Chambers makes the case for reading Gatsby as noir crime fiction.
This week, we celebrated Earth Day, and Janet Rudolph posted some environmental/ecological mysteries on the Mystery Fanfare blog.
An exhibition is on display in the Upper Reading Room of New College Library in Oxford, UK, about a leading figure of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and one of New College’s most popular authors, Cyril Hare (1900–1958).
If you find yourself in Paris, France, the Galerie du Montparnasse is hosting the rather macabre Serial Killer Exhibition (although in addition to exploring the workings of crime, there is an effort to pay tribute to the memory of the victims). Billed as "the world's largest collection of original artifacts belonging to serial killers," the exhibition includes over 1,000 original artifacts - such as Jeffrey Dahmer's glasses and Armin Meiwes's refrigerator - as well as recreations of infamous crime scenes like those of Ted Bundy and the Zodiac Killer and documents and drawings of the most famous killers made by themselves.
Also in the true-crime realm, the True CRIME Museum in White Rock, Hastings in the UK is featuring a talk on May 11 by the Curator, Joel Griggs. The True CRIME Museum is dedicated to the history of crime and punishment with even more macabre artifacts from the criminal world (and yes, more serial killers), including a step back into Victorian London with stories of Jack the Ripper, and a glimpse into the mind of a killer through Richard Ramirez’s haunting love letters.
Was Edgar Allan Poe a time traveler?
In the Q&A roundup, Julie Mae Cohen took the Page 69 Test to her new romantic thriller, Eat, Slay, Love; the Seattle Times interviewed Matthew Sullivan about his latest novel, Midnight in Soap Lake, set in a small Washington town; and Norwegian crime fiction author Jo Nesbø reflected on writing, characters, and the shadow of Harry Hole with The Iceland Monitor.
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