(Download the 8 Mb PDF file of the 2017 CrimeFest Souvenir Programme)
– ITINERARY
– CRIME WRITING DAY
– ONE-ON-ONE MANUSCRIPT ASSESSMENT
– PITCH AN AGENT
– FORENSIC CRIME SCENE HOUSE EXCURSION
– THE INDIE ALTERNATIVE PANEL
ITINERARY
(ALL TIMES, PANELS AND PANELLISTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
THURSDAY, 17 MAY:
| Track 1 | Track 2 |
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| 13:30 – 14:20 Debut Authors: An Infusion Of Fresh Blood
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| 14:40 – 15:30 Book ‘Em, Danno: Writing The Police Procedural
| 14:40 – 15:30 Climate Change: Cold Crimes And Hot Homicides
With thanks to the Norwegian Embassy |
| 15:50 – 16:40 Crime Through The Millennia
| 15.50 – 16.40 Darkness And Light: Are You Cosy Or Noir?
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| 17:00 – 17:50 Authors Remembered
| 17.00 – 17.50 Love Can Be Deadly
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| Time To Be Confirmed CRIMEFEST Pub Quiz, with crime writer and critic Peter Guttridge as your quiz inquisitor. Prizes to be won! Location: TBC |
FRIDAY, 18 MAY:
| Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
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| 09:00 – 09:50 Debut Authors: An Infusion Of Fresh Blood
| 09:00 – 09:50 Genre And Sub–Genre: Why We Write What We Write
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| 10:10 – 11:00 Special (Dis?)Abilities
With thanks to the Goethe-Institut London | 10:10 – 11:00 The Victorians: From Industrial Revolution To Covering Piano Legs
| 10:10 – 11:00 Acting On Impulse: Bad Behaviour
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| 11:20 – 12:10 ‘More Law, Less Justice’: Was Cicero Right?
| 11:20 – 12:10 In England’s Green and Pleasant Land
| 11:20 – 12:10 Dial 999
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| 12:30 – 13:20 Crime In A Time Of War
| 12:30 – 13:20 Power, Corruption And Greed: Just Another Day At The Office
With thanks to the Norwegian Embassy | 12:30 – 13:20 Detecting Duos
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| 13:40 – 14:30 Krimi Time! The Best of German Crime Fiction
With thanks to the Goethe-Institut London | 13:40 – 14:30 Life With The Dull Bits Cut Out
In association with ITW | 13:40 – 14:30 Domestic Malice: When Your Partner Can’t Be Trusted
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| 14:50 – 15:40 Going Undercover: PIs And Other Investigators
| 14:50 – 15:40 10 Year Stretch: The CRIMEFEST Anthology
| 14:50 – 15:40 Families Can Be Murder
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| 16:00 – 16:50 JOHN BANVILLE & JOHN SIMENON Interviewer: Maxim Jakubowski | 16:00 – 16:50 Writing Pairs: Is Two A Crowd?
| 16:00 – 16:50 Hot Off The Press: Journalists In Crime Fiction
With thanks to the Norwegian Embassy |
| 17:10 – 18:00 Small Town, Big City
| 17:10 – 18:00 Bloody Scotland
With a nod to our colleagues: bloodyscotland.com | |
| 18:30 – 19:30 CRIMEFEST hosts the Crime Writers’ Association’s Dagger Announcement Reception |
SATURDAY, 19 MAY:
| Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:50 Debut Authors: An Infusion Of Fresh Blood
| 09:00 – 09:50 Cold Chills: A Touch of The Supernatural
| 09:00 – 09:50 W Is For Woman – Something To Prove?
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| 10:10 – 11:00 I Could Tell You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You: Spying For A Living
| 10:10 – 11:00 Century Of Change: 20th Century Crime Fiction
| 10:10 – 11:00 It’s All In The Mind: Psychology, Obsession and Paranoia
With thanks to the Goethe-Institut London |
| 11:30 – 12:30 Featured Guest Authors LEE CHILD & JEFFERY DEAVER Interviewer: Jake Kerridge KINGS ROOM | ||
| 13:00 – 13:50 Secrets And Reveals: Ramping Up The Tension
| 13:00 – 13:50 Historical Noir: Can Historical Fiction Be Noir?
| 13:00 – 13:50 If I Didn’t Laugh, I’d Die: Humour In Crime Fiction
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| 14:10 – 15:00 Follow The Money: Financial Crimes
| 14:10 – 15:00 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: Classic Thrillers
| 14:10 – 15:00 Gangsters & Villains: When You Write About The Other Side Of The Law
With thanks to the Goethe-Institut London |
| 15:20 – 16:10 Ian Fleming vs John le Carré
Who is the better spy novelist, and who will have the longer legacy? With thanks to Ian Fleming Publications | 15:20 – 16:10 Real People: The Facts In The Fiction
| 15:20 – 16:10 Getting Personal – Private Lives Of Characters
With thanks to the Norwegian Embassy |
| 16:40 – 17:30 Featured Guest Authors MARTINA COLE & PETER JAMES Interviewer: Peter Guttridge KINGS ROOM | ||
| 18:30 – 19:30 HarperCollins Pre–Gala Dinner Reception: Launching THE KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS KICKSTART; opening doors to crime writing (all Full Pass holders welcome). 19:30 CRIMEFEST Awards Dinner – ticket holders only |
SUNDAY, 20 MAY:
| Track 1 | Track 2 |
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| 09:30 – 10:20 Debut Authors: An Infusion Of Fresh Blood
| 09:30 – 10:20 The Indie Alternative
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| 10:40 – 11.30 It’s News To Me: Writing About Social And Topical Issues
| 10:40 – 11.30 Featured Guest Authors and former Petrona Winners YRSA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR & GUNNAR STAALESEN Interviewer: Barry Forshaw |
| 11:50 – 12:40 Dark Places: Plumbing The Depths
| 11:50 – 12:40 Give Me A Break: Putting Characters Through The Mill
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| 13:00 – 13:50 I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Cluedo
PRIZES TO BE WON! KINGS ROOM |
CRIME WRITING DAY
Details to follow.
ONE-ON-ONE MANUSCRIPT ASSESSMENT
For those who are looking for feedback on a finished (or almost completed) manuscript, CRIMEFEST is hosting a One-On-One Manuscript Assessment Service with Janet Laurence. Based on submitted sample writing, Janet will provide constructive comments on how to improve characterisation, dialogue and/or plot, allowing manuscripts to be submitted in the best possible format to agents and/or editors. These assessments—to be conducted on Friday and Saturday, 18 and 19 May—will be based on a 1,500 word synopsis and the first 3,000 words of the manuscript. There are only a limited number of places—which have previously sold out—and the registration fee for a place is £50. One-On-One Manuscript Assessment slots are only open to delegates who are not commercially published, are without an agent and who have registered for a Day or Full CRIMEFEST Pass. (Unless the buyer also signs up for a Day or Full CRIMEFEST Pass, a £10 refund fee will be charged for incorrect bookings.). BUY TICKETS to register.
Janet Laurence is best known for her Darina Lisle culinary mysteries and trio of Canaletto crime novels. She is also the author of Writing Crime Fiction—Making Crime Pay and has run writing workshops for the Arvon Foundation and the Cheltenham Spring Festival among others.
PITCH AN AGENT
Are you an aspiring author looking for an agent? If so, CRIMEFEST is pleased to announce that it will once again be hosting the PITCH AN AGENT strand on Friday and Saturday, 18 and 19 May. Top agents will be at CRIMEFEST and aspiring crime writers will have fourteen minutes to pitch their manuscripts to each of them simultaneously in a private session. Consider it speed dating for an agent meets BBC’s Dragon’s Den (aka Shark Tank in the USA). Authors represented by these agencies include Lee Child, Martina Cole, John Connolly, Tana French, Paul Johnston, Stuart Macbride, and L.C. Tyler. There are only a limited number of places—which have previously sold out—and the registration fee for a place is £50. PITCH AN AGENT is only open to delegates who have not previously participated, are not commercially published, are without an agent and who have registered for a Friday and/or Saturday Day or Full CRIMEFEST Pass. (Unless the buyer also signs up for a Day or Full CRIMEFEST Pass, a £10 refund fee will be charged for incorrect bookings.)
Participants will be required to submit the first 3,000 words of their manuscript, together with a brief synopsis (of up to 1,500 words) by 20 April 2018. All the PITCH AN AGENT slots have previously sold out, so BUY TICKETS early to avoid disappointment.
THE AGENTS:
Camilla Wray, originator of PITCH AN AGENT, is the Crime & Thriller agent at the Darley Anderson Literary TV & Film Agency. She studied English Literature and Psychology at Cardiff University, specialising in novel writing and abnormal psychology. In 2003 she co-founded a successful business and worked on this until 2005, when she decided to follow her love of stories. After gaining a distinction from the University of the Arts, she worked for a national newspaper until she joined the Darley Anderson Agency in 2007. The Darley Anderson Agency is an international market leader for commercial crime and thrillers, and represents No.1 bestselling authors such as Lee Child, John Connolly, Martina Cole, Tana French and Tim Weaver.
‘There are agents. There are good agents. There are super agents. And then there’s Darley Anderson.’
—Lee Child
Broo Doherty, formerly with the Wade & Doherty Literary Agency, is a partner at the DHH Literary Agency. She has worked in publishing for the last twenty years and has had a variety of different roles throughout the industry. She started as a production assistant at Victor Gollancz and moved to Hodder & Stoughton for a brief period before joining Transworld as an editor for the Bantam Press imprint. Broo handles all genres, excluding children’s books and science fiction, but focuses her attention on crime, women’s commercial fiction, literary fiction and quirky non-fiction. Authors represented by DHH Literary Agency include Alison Bruce, Paul Johnston, Adrian Magson, Eve Seymour and L.C. Tyler.
Philip Patterson heads up the book department at Marjacq Scripts. He has loved all things crime and thriller, ever since being allowed to stay up and watch The Sweeney with his dad. He studied English & American Literature at University of Manchester, and has been in publishing for over 20 years, starting at HarperCollins Publishers, a film agent at Curtis Brown, before joining Marjacq in 2003. Authors represented by Marjacq include Helen FitzGerald, Howard Linskey, Stuart Macbride, Luca Veste and the R.D. Wingfield Estate.
FORENSIC CRIME SCENE HOUSE EXCURSION
Thursday, 17 May, 09:30 – 12:30
Have you always wanted to get your hands dirty at a crime scene? Maybe that’s not the best way of putting it, but with CRIMEFEST’s special tour on offer, that’s what you’ll be able to do. The University of the West of England are offering delegates special access to their Crime Scene experts who train Forensic Science students and police. And this year, we have a special location for our crime: the Glenside Hospital Museum. The hospital, originally called the Bristol Lunatic Asylum, was built in 1861, and the museum is situated in the church within the grounds of the old asylum which closed in 1994. It provides an insight into the evolution of treatments and shows how mental health care has changed over the last 150 years. It is a fascinating place to visit on any day, but, as an added bonus for CRIMEFEST delegates, it will be hosting a murder, just for us.
Delegates will be briefed on the scene and will walk through the Museum identifying clues and getting hands-on experience of searching for evidence, testing for fingerprints, identifying blood and other substances and getting to use mysterious pieces of forensic kit. Forensics experts will also be on hand to guide you through and answer specific questions, focusing on modern day procedures in a historic setting.
You even get to keep your outfit. We will be visiting the house on Thursday, 17 May. The trip costs £39.95, including transport to UWE’s campus which is about half an hour away. A minibus will pick us up at 9.30am outside the Marriott Hotel and deliver us back at 12.30, in plenty of time for the first panel. Spaces are limited, in order to ensure a great experience for all participants.
Visit CRIMEFEST’s TICKET page to register.
THE INDIE ALTERNATIVE PANEL
Increasingly authors are going it alone and self-publishing their books because the financial rewards can be significantly greater than the traditional path. Also, publishing houses are now using the sales figures of self-published authors as a tool to seek out new talent. Recognising this development, CRIMEFEST organises a panel to give four independently published authors a chance to discuss their work. If you are a self-published crime writer and are interested in participating on this panel then visit THE INDIE ALTERNATIVE page for more information or to sign up.