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.

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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

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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

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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/

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SleuthFest 2019

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 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/

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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/

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Newcastle Noir

3-5th May 2019

Visit Website for details: NewcastleNoir

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Malice Domestic 31

       

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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/

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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/

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​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

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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 

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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

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ThrillerFest

Dates: 9-13 July, 2019, Venue: Grand Hyatt, NYC, USA Details: ThrillerFest

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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

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