National Crime Reading Month is a unique festival, held throughout the UK, which promotes the crime genre, both fiction and non fiction.
NCRM is held every May throughout the month. Sometimes a few events spill over into June!
A unique crime book festival held nationwide every May.
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Crime Reading Month
NCRM is a unique, UK-wide literary festival which promotes the crime genre, both fiction and non fiction. NCRM is designed to bring together writers and crime readers in order to promote the genre as a whole and crime writers specifically.

The CWA
The Crime Writers’ Association was founded in 1953 by author John Creasey and has hundreds of author members nationwide and overseas. It enjoys a prestigious reputation; awarding the annual CWA Daggers as well as co-ordinating NCRM.

The CRA
The Crime Readers’ Association provides a blog, ezine and newsletter cram-packed with articles written by crime writers about crime writing. Find out what’s hot, get fascinating perspectives on crime writing and discover new authors. And it’s free.