(Download the 10.9 Mb PDF file of the 2015 CrimeFest Souvenir Programme)
– ITINERARY
– PITCH AN AGENT
– CRIME WRITING DAY
THURSDAY, 14 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 A Woman In A Man’s World?
| 14:40 - 15:30 Odd Jobs
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| 15:50 - 16:40 Nordic Noir Panel: Crime At The Borders Of The Arctic
| 15.50 - 16.40 Heroes And Antiheroes
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| 17:00 - 17:50 Forgotten Authors
| 17.00 - 17.50 Subgenres - Why Do You Write What You Write?
Sponsored by the Norwegian Embassy |
| 19:30 - 21:00 CRIMEFEST Pub Quiz, with crime writer and critic Peter Guttridge as your quiz inquisitor. Prizes to be won! |
FRIDAY, 15 MAY:
| Track 1 | Track 2 | In the Spotlight Sessions |
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| 09:00 - 09:50 Debut Authors: An Infusion Of Fresh Blood
| 09:00 - 09:50 Crafting Crime: The Art Of Writing Crime Fiction
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| 10:10 - 11:00 The Pleasures And Pitfalls Of Writing Historical Crime
| 10:10 - 11:00 Identity And Viewpoint: Writing ‘The Other’
| 10:10 - 10:30 Frances Brody The Chief Constable Who Became Director-General of MI5 10:40 - 11:00 |
| 11:20 - 12:10 Detective Duos
Sponsored by the Norwegian Embassy | 11:20 - 12:10 Deadly Friendships
Participating Moderator: Doug Johnstone | 11:20 - 11:40 Tom Callaghan A Sense Of Place 11:50 - 12:10 |
| 12:30 - 13:20 It’s A Dangerous Life: Thrillers From Psychology To Action
Participating Moderator: Stav Sherez | 12:30 - 13:20 Private Eyes And Lone Wolves: Lacking The Backing Of The Law
Participating Moderator: Ruth Downie | 12:30 - 12:50 Linda Stratmann Where I Get My Ideas From 13:00 - 13:20 |
| 13:40 - 14:30 Audible: Crime Pays In Audio
Participating Moderator: Steve Carsey | 13:40 - 14:30 Playing God With Your Characters
| 13:40 - 14:00 Peter Murphy The Cambridge Spies: A Better Class Of Crime 14:10 - 14:30 |
| 14:50 - 15:40 How Realistic Is Crime Fiction?
Participating moderator: Steve Mosby | 14:50 - 15:40 Strange Bedfellows: Sex In Crime Fiction
Participating Moderator: Barry Forshaw | 14:50 - 15:10 Manda Scott Cyber Crime: The New Warfare? 15:20 - 15:40 |
| 16:00 - 16:50 Psychopaths: Not Very Nice, Or Just Misunderstood?
| 16:00 - 16:50 War Crimes
| 16:00 - 16:20 Helen Giltrow, Colette McBeth, M.J. McGrath & K.T. Medina Killer Women 16:30 - 16:50 |
| 17:10 - 18:00 Do You Know Who You Are: Writing Other Authors Or Their Characters
| 17:10 - 18:00 Euro Noir
Sponsored by the Norwegian Embassy | |
| MAIN BAR 18:00 - 19:00 Hodder & Stoughton invite you to meet their authors and have a drink. All full pass holders welcome. | ||
| PALM COURT 18:30 - 19:30 CrimeFest hosts the CWA Shortlist Announcement Reception. All full pass holders welcome. |
SATURDAY, 16 MAY:
| Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
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| 09:00 - 09:50 Debut Authors: An Infusion Of Fresh Blood
Moderator: Laura Wilson | 09:00 - 09:50 Got Demons: Does A Crime Fiction Protagonist Need To Have Added Angst?
Participating Moderator: David Mark | 09:00 - 09:50 It’s A Fair Cop, Guv: Women Police Officers
Participating Moderator: Priscilla Masters |
| 10:10 - 11:00 2015 Diamond Dagger recipient CATHERINE AIRD Interviewed by Jake Kerridge | 10:10 - 11:00 Is There An Agenda? Message Or Entertainment?
| 10:10 - 11.00 Spies: When Snooping Is Your Business
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| 11:20 - 12:10 Mean Streets And Small Towns: Crime In City Or Countryside
Participating Moderator: Craig Robertson | 11:20-12:10 Characters Who Disappear
| 11:20 - 12:10 Thrillers: Brains Or Brawn, Who Kicks Best Ass
Participating Moderator: Tom Harper In association with the International Thriller Writers (ITW) |
| 12:30 - 13:20 Wrong Side Of The Law: When Your Protagonists Aren’t Paragons Of Virtue
| 12:30 - 13:20 In Living Memory: Writing About The Recent Past
Sponsored by the Norwegian Embassy | 12:30 - 13:20 Faces Of Evil: Dictators, Serial Killers & Psychopaths
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| 13:40 - 14:30 125 Years Of Agatha Christie
Interviewed by John Curran | 13:40 - 14:30 Gritty Or Gratuitous?
Participating Moderator: Andrew Taylor | 13:40 - 14:30 Keeping Secrets, Telling Lies: Choices Characters Make
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| 14:50 - 15:40 Featured Guest Author MAJ SJÖWALL Interviewed by Lee Child With thanks to the British Centre for Literary Translation | ||
| 16:00 - 16:50 Writing The Thrills
| 16:00 - 16:50 Things That Go Bump
| 16.00 - 16.50 Social And Political Life In Crime Fiction
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| 18:30 - 19:30 The Dark Pages reception – all Full Pass holders welcome | ||
| 19:30 CRIMEFEST Gala Awards Dinner - ticket holders only |
SUNDAY, 17 MAY:
| Track 1 | Track 2 |
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| 09:30 - 10:20 Debut Authors: An Infusion Of Fresh Blood
| 09:30 - 10:20 Emerging Indie Voices
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| 10:40 - 11.30 Short And Sweet: Crime Fiction In Small Packages
| 10:40 - 11.30 Getting Radical: Pushing Against The Boundaries
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| 11:50 - 12:40 Lawyers And Journalists: Upholders Of Truth And Justice? Or...Can We Trust You?
| 11:50 - 12:40 Featured Guest Author And Toastmaster JAMES RUNCIE Interviewed by Jake Kerridge |
| 13:00 - 13:50 Criminal Mastermind
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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 in 2015. 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. Authors represented by these agencies include Lee Child, Martina Cole, John Connolly, Tana French, Paul Johnston 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 £35. 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 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 30 April 2015. 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.
CRIME WRITING DAY
On Friday, 15 May, CRIMEFEST presents a Crime Writing Day that will help aspiring crime authors to write a manuscript, find an agent and, hopefully, get published.
Crime Writing Day sessions:
– How To Self Publish In eBook And Print with Joanna Penn
– Agents And Editors: Who Does What For Authors? with agents David Headley and Camilla Wray, and editors Stefanie Bierworth (Quercus) and Vicki Mellor (Headline)
– Constructing Character and Plot with M.R. Hall and William Ryan
– One-On-One Manuscript Assessments with Janet Laurence
10:30 – 11:30: How To Self Publish In eBook And Print
with Joanna Penn
Publishing houses are increasingly turning to new media for fresh talent, but is the traditional route the best way to go? This session will cover how self-publishing fits into the current publishing eco-system, how to publish your book in ebook and print and some tips for self-publishing success.
J.F. Penn is the bestselling author of Desecration and the ARKANE thriller series. Joanna was voted one the Guardian’s Top 100 creative professionals 2013, and her blog, TheCreativePenn.com, offers advice on writing and creative entrepreneurship.
11:45 – 12:45: Agents And Editors — Who Does What For Authors?
with agents David Headley (DHH Literary Agency) and Camilla Wray (Darley Anderson Literary TV & Film Agency), and editors Stefanie Bierworth (Quercus) and Vicki Mellor (Headline).
Do you need an agent to get published? And, if you do, how do the services of agents differ from those of an editor at a publishing company? How do you go get representation from an agent? What are agents and editors looking for in a manuscript, and what do they expect from authors? These and many more questions will be answered by two agents and two editors during a presentation that includes time for questions from the participants.
1:00 – 1:30: Light lunch (included as part of the crime writing day)
1:30 – 5:00: Constructing Character and Plot
with M.R. Hall and William Ryan
With a mixture of presentations and workshop exercises attendees will learn to construct interesting and complex characters from scratch and then use them to develop the plot of a crime novel—all in the space of an afternoon. Ryan and Hall’s practical and entertaining workshops for the Guardian and literary and crime festivals (including Harrogate and Iceland Noir) have been much praised by attendees from absolute beginners to published authors and may be just the thing to kick-start your crime writing career. (The workshop includes a break for coffee or tea.)
M.R. Hall is a Bafta nominated screenwriter and author of the bestselling crime novels featuring coroner Jenny Cooper. Historical thriller writer William Ryan is the creator of the widely acclaimed Captain Korolev series.
Saturday, 16 May: One-On-One Manuscript Assessments
Also included in the crime writing day are one-on-one manuscript assessments for the first ten participants to register. These assessments—to be conducted on Saturday 16 May by crime novelist Janet Laurence—will be based on a 1,500 word synopsis and the first 3,000 words of the manuscript.
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.
The Crime Writing Day registration fee is £150. Delegates signing up for both the Crime Writing Day and a full CRIMEFEST pass (£150) will receive a £50 rebate. BUY TICKETS to register.