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Celebrate Canadian Crime Writing on CBC!

Throughout the month of May, Crime Writers of Canada has partnered with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to celebrate Canadian crime writing on CBC’s Canada Writes.

• International best selling author Louise Penny will be leading a master class in crime writing.
• Four of your favourite crime authors, Gail Bowen, William Deverell, Mary Jane Maffini and Peter Robinson, along with our two contest winners, Therese Greenwood and Doug Moles, will be providing some spine tingling stories.
• Every day during the month, a CWC member will be offering a valuable writing tip, 31 in all.
• You, yourself, will have an opportunity to test your crime writing skills by submitting a page turning entry to the Page Turner Challenge. Check out the celebrity samples from Anthony Bidulka, Pamela Callow, Deryn Collier, Vicki Delany and Howard Shrier.

All in all it is going to be a very exciting month of May. Be sure not to miss out on the fun. Check Canada Writes often. And spread the word. We want to make this the best celebration ever of Canadian crime writing.

 

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Crime Writers of Canada is proud to announce...

The Arthur Ellis Awards Shortlists

Best Crime Novel
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny, St. Martin’s Press
Before the Poison by Peter Robinson, McClelland and Stewart
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley, Doubleday Canada
I'll See you in My Dreams by William Deverell, McClelland and Stewart
The Guilty Plea by Robert Rotenberg, Simon&Schuster

Best First Novel
The Man Who Killed by Fraser Nixon, Douglas & McIntrye
The Survivor by Sean Slater, Simon&Schuster
The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton, House of Anansi Press Inc.
Tight Corner by Roger White, BPS Books
Watching Jeopardy by Norm Foster, XLibris

Best Crime Book in French
La chorale du diable by Martin Michaud, Les Editions Guélette
Pwazon by Diane Vincent, Editors Triptyque
Pour Ne Pas Mourir ce soir by Guillaume Lapierre-Desnoyers, Lévesque Éditeur

Best Juvenile or Young Adult Crime Book
Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones, Candlewick Press
Charlie's Key by Rob Mills, Orca Book Publishers
Empire of Ruins by Arthur Slade, HarperCollins Publishers
Held by Edeet Ravel, Annick Press
Missing by Becky Citra, Orca Book Publishers

Best Crime Nonfiction
A Season in Hell by  Robert Fowler, Harper Collins
Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art by Joshua Knelman, Douglas& McIntyre
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Steven Laffoley, Pottersfield
The Pirates of Somalia by Jay Badadur, Harper Collins
The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob by Adrian Humphreys, Wiley

Best Crime Short Story
A New Pair of Pants by Jas. R. Petrin, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Beer Money by Shane Nelson, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
The Girl with the Golden Hair by Scott Mackay, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
The Perfect Mark by Melodie Campbell, Flash Fiction Magazine
What Kelly Did by Catherine Astolfo, North Word Magazine

Best Unpublished First Novel - “Unhanged Arthur”
Gunning for Bear by Madeleine Harris-Callway
Last of the Independents by Sam Wiebe
Snake in the Snow by William Bonnell
The Rhymester by Valerie A. Drego
Too Far to Fall by Shane Sawyer

For details check out the 2012 Cool Canadian Crime Shortlist Special

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2012 Arthur Ellis Awards Banquet

Who will win the Arthur? Find out on May 31

Sign up for a Sweet Celebration!

This year marks the 30^th Anniversary of Crime Writers of Canada, so we’ve planned a special gala for the Awards.

Come and be part of the fun.

Thursday May 31, 2012
Toronto I, Hilton Toronto,
145 Richmond Street West, Toronto

Start time: 8 pm
Tickets: $80.00

Click here to order tickets.

Crime Writers of Canada's  May Authors Events are  here!

 

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