This page is dedicated to worldwide events for Crime Fiction, Mystery & Thriller fans.
If you know of an event that I haven’t listed please send me details on the Keep In Touch page.
Granite Noir Aberdeen Festival
Venue: Across various venues in the City of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Date: 22nd to 24th Feb 2019
Website: Granite Noir Aberdeen Festival
Adelaide Writers Week
Hosted by the Australian Crime Writers Association
“A Marvellously Free Six-Day Event In A Shady Spot On The Edge Of The Torrens River” Sydney Morning Herald
Adelaide Writers’ Week is Australia’s largest free literary festival, offering both writers and readers a unique opportunity to spend time sharing ideas and literary explorations in a garden setting in Adelaide’s city centre. Each carefully selected program brings the world’s most celebrated established and emerging writers together for a week that delights, surprises and enlightens audiences.
2nd March 2019
Visit the website for more information: https://www.austcrimewriters.com/events
Noireland
Belfast’s NOIRELAND International Crime Festival is delighted to announce that it is returning in spring 2019, with another weekend of stellar names from the world of crime fiction.
NOIRELAND will be moving from the autumn to become a spring festival, and will take place once again at Belfast’s iconic Europa Hotel. Plans are already afoot and it is shaping up to be another superb weekend of crime fiction, with interviews and discussions featuring some of the greatest names from page and screen.
The festival programme will be announced and ticket office open on 16 November 2018
8th-10th March
Europa Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Website: https://www.noireland.com/
SleuthFest 2019
March 14-17, 2019 – A Premier Conference for Writers of All Levels
Sponsored by the Florida Chapter of Mystery Writers of America
Embassy Suites by Hilton Boca Raton
661 NW 53rd Street, Boca Raton, Florida, 33487
Murder and Mayhem in Chicago
Bringing murder and mayhem—the fictional kind—to Chicago.
MMC is a one-day event featuring some of Chicago’s top mystery/crime writers and a few of their friends, too. This event is perfect for crime readers and librarians hoping to find new books to read and aspiring crime writers hoping to learn about the mystery community and writing and publishing careers.
Date: 23rd March 2019
Venue: Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois
Website: http://murdermayhemchicago.com/
Left Coast Crime (Whale of a Crime)
Left Coast Crime is an annual mystery convention sponsored by mystery fans, both readers and authors. LCC is held during the first quarter of the year in Western North America. Conventions have been held from Anchorage to El Paso, from Boulder to Hawaii, and various locations in between. Noir, cozy, thriller, historical and more.
Date: 28th to 31st March 2019
Venue: Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, Canada
Website: http://www.leftcoastcrime.org/2019/
Newcastle Noir
3-5th May 2019Visit Website for details: NewcastleNoir
Malice Domestic 31
Highlights include: Gala Dinner Interviews with Guest Authors Presentations of the CRIMEFEST Awards
In addition, there will be some forty author panels with more than a hundred participating authors, a crime writing workshop, a pitch-an-agent strand, and much more.
9-12 May 2019
Venue: Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel, Broad Street, Bristol BS1 2EL, United Kingdom
Website: http://www.crimefest.com/
Maine Crime Wave
Dates: 31st May- 1st June 2019
Venue: University of Southern Maine’s Glickman Library in Portland
Website: http://mainewriters.org/maine-crime-wave/
6th Annual Conference of the International Crime Fiction Association
The Captivating Criminality Network is delighted to announce its sixth conference, which will be held in Italy. Building upon and developing ideas and themes from the previous five successful conferences, Metamorphoses of Crime: Facts and Fictions will examine the ways in which Crime Fiction as a genre incorporates elements of real-life cases and, in turn, influences society by conveying thought-provoking ideas of deviance, criminal activity, investigation, and punishment. Read More
Dates: 12-15 June 2019
Venue: G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Website: https://www.captivatingcriminalitynetwork.net
The Golden Age Detective Fiction Conference
The Golden Age Detective Fiction Conference, organized by the Bodies From The Library will take place on 16th June 2018 at The British Library in London, United Kingdom. The conference will provide an opportunity to meet leading experts on classic detective fiction, and to talk with modern authors whose novels follow in the Golden Age tradition.
Dates: 29 June 2019
Venue: British Library, London, UK
Website: https://10times.com/golden-age-detective-fiction-conference
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
Date: July 18-21, 2019,
Venue: Harrogate.
Details: https://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/crime-writing-festival/
Authors who have previously attended: Martina Cole, Linwood Barclay, J.K.Rowling
ThrillerFest
Dates: 9-13 July, 2019,
Venue: Grand Hyatt, NYC, USA
Details: ThrillerFest
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
July 18-21, 2019,
Venue: Harrogate.
Details: https://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/crime-writing-festival/
Authors who have previously attended: Martina Cole, Linwood Barclay, J.K.Rowling
