The Crime Writers of Canada is a national organization for Canadian crime writers, associated professionals, and anyone else with a serious interest in Canadian crime writing.
Its mission is to promote Canadian crime writing and to raise the profile of Canadian crime writers from coast to coast.
Our membership categories include:- Professional author members – authors with a crime-related publication to their credit
- Supporting members – publishers, editors, agents, booksellers, and others in the publishing industry
- Associate writer members – aspiring authors of crime books and stories
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Honorary members – fans, librarians, and others interested in crime writing.
Here are some of the
benefits the CWC offers:
Fingerprints Online
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our e-newsletter packed with tips about writing and publishing,
forensics and criminology items, information about writing contests and
markets, news about our members, and more
Networking opportunities via our members-only listserv plus access to a database of our members’ areas of expertise (this database is currently under construction)
A member bio page on our Website
Inclusion in our print and e-promo tools, such as our flyer and previous issues of Cool Canadian Crime our quarterly e-newsletter about members’ new books – with thousands of subscribers and counting…
Inclusion in our monthly author events listing, which is emailed to members and posted to our Website
An invitation to appear at national and local industry events (like Word on the Street) plus literary festivals, including our own National Crime Writing Week, and mystery conferences (like Bloody Words and Scene of the Crime)
A mentoring program where a published author member can help aspiring authors over those writing humps (mostly for unpublished authors, but published authors can also join this program as mentees)
Each year, the CWC presents the Arthur Ellis Awards, Canada's national awards for excellence in the crime-writing field.
The CWC has five regional chapters:
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BC and Yukon
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Prairies
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Toronto/GTA/southern Ontario
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Ottawa/eastern Ontario
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Quebec/Atlantic Canada
If a group of members wishes to set up a new chapter, we encourage them to do so.
For more information about the CWC contact us.
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