Dagger in the Library Award opens for entries again!
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The search is on for the next winner of the prestigious Dagger in the Library Award, run by the Crime Writers’ Association.
Presented each year in recognition of a crime writer whose body of fiction or non-fiction is popular with readers and who supports libraries, the award is unique in that authors are nominated by library staff, volunteers and borrowers.
The CWA is asking borrowers to submit their nominations to their local library between now and Monday 9th December. Nominations will be submitted by libraries to the judges between 1st January and 28th February 2025.
The panel will agree a longlist which will be reduced to a shortlist with people working in libraries invited to vote for their winner in the spring.
More information, including posters that libraries can download, can be found at thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-competitions/the-daggers/dagger-in-the-library
Crime writer John Dean, who lives in Dumfries and Galloway and is the CWA’s Libraries Champion in Scotland, as well as a member of the Public Library Advocacy Network for Scotland, said:
We redesigned the Dagger in the Library award last year in order to attract more nominations and a number of excellent suggestions by Scottish library staff and volunteers played an important role in making the process a success.
I am sure they will come forward with nominations again this year. Who better to identify the very best of crime writers than the people who run and use our libraries and who live and breathe books?
