Vicki Delany has been nominated twice in The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery sponsored by Jane Doe category. Steeped in Malice (published by Kensington Books) and The Game is a Footnote (published by Crooked Lane Books) are both on the shortlist.
Vicki is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the U.S. She has written more than fifty books: clever cozies to Gothic thrillers to gritty police procedurals, to historical fiction and novellas for adult literacy. She is currently writing four cozy mystery series: the Year Round Christmas books for Crooked Lane, the Tea by the Sea mysteries for Kensington, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series for Crooked Lane Books, and the Lighthouse Library series (as Eva Gates) for Crooked Lane.
Vicki is a past president of the Crime Writers of Canada. Her work has been nominated for the Derringer, the Bony Blithe, the Ontario Library Association Golden Oak, and several Awards of Excellence.
Vicki is the recipient of the 2019 Derrick Murdoch Award for contributions to Canadian crime writing. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
Craig H. Bowlsby’s story, REQUIEM FOR A LOTUS is nominated for The Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript
Born and raised in Vancouver, Craig has a BFA in creative writing from UBC and has studied extensively with the brilliant and celebrated author William Deverell.
Last year, he won the Award of Excellence for the Best Crime Short Story, sponsored by Mystery Magazine, for his story, THE GIRL WHO WAS ONLY THREE QUARTERS DEAD. In 2014, he won the Brian McFarlane Award from the Society for International Hockey Research. Craig has also written articles for the Vancouver Province, the Seattle Times, The Hockey News, and the Vancouver Courier.
Gail Bowen is nominated for The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery sponsored by Jane Doe.
THE LEGACY is 22 book in her long running Joanne Kilbourn series, several of which were either nominated for or received awards, including the then named Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel in 1994, for A COLDER KIND OF DEATH. She has also written four Rapid Reads novellas, the Charlie D and several plays. She is well established in Canada, highly respected in the writing community and much sought after by readers. She is frequently a guest at literary events. Several of her Joanne Kilbourn books were turned into a TV series.
An interview with Maureen Jennings, the 2024 recipient of the Grandmaster Lifetime Achievement Award from Crime Writers of Canada. This prestigious award recognizes her long-term contribution to Canadian and international mystery writing. Established in 2014, the Grand Master Award is given to a Canadian crime writer with a substantial body of work that has garnered national and international recognition.
Hosted by Erik D'Souza
Ludvica Boota (Progaming Director) and Erik D'Souza (Social Media Coordinator) discuss Crime Writers Canada's 2024 Awards of Excellence. They congradulate some of the nominees and talk about the voting process.
Wayne Ng discusses his novella, LETTERS FROM JOHNNY, the winner of the Best Novella for Crime Writers Canada's 2022 Awards of Excellence.
About the Author
Wayne Ng was born in downtown Toronto to Chinese immigrants who fed him a steady diet of bitter melons and kung fu movies. Ng works as a school social worker in Ottawa but lives to write, travel, eat and play, preferably all at the same time.
He is an award-winning author and traveler who continues to push his boundaries from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Author of LETTERS FROM JOHNNY, THE FAMILY CODE (2023) and FINDING THE WAY: A NOVEL OF LAO TZU. Connect with Wayne at WayneNgWrites.com
Dietrich is the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of ten novels and winner of the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Crime Novel sponsored by Rakuten Kobo, for his novel UNDER AN OUTLAW MOON.
learn more at https://dietrichkalteis.com/
Renee Lehnen discusses her novel, ELMINGTON, the winner of the Best Unpublished Manuscript for Crime Writers Canada's 2022 Awards of Excellence.
About the Author
Renee Lehnen works as a registered nurse in a long-term care home in Stratford, Ontario. Writing is her favourite stress reliever, but she also enjoys outdoor sports, painting, and torturing an old piano.
A latecomer to the world of writing, she took up the craft as an empty nester and what she lacks in experience, she makes up in enthusiasm.
Her short stories have been published in several anthologies and webzines. More information about her novels can be found at lehnen.ca.
Welcome to the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence.
The annual awards recognize the best in mystery, crime, and suspense fiction, and crime nonfiction by Canadian authors.
Crime Writers of Canada offers sincere thanks to our award sponsors:
Rakuten KOBO
ECW Press
Shaftesbury
Writers First
Simpson & Wellenreiter LLP, Hamilton
Mystery Magazine
Jane Doe
And the Engel Family
Crime Writers of Canada would also like to thank Frank Kearney for announcing the shortlist and our winner’s presentation, as well as, Stone Court Studios for producing the video presenations.
Lastly, CWC would like to thank everyone in the Canadian publishing community for making the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence a success through the years.
For more information about Crime Writers of Canada and the Annual Awards, please go to CrimeWritersCanada.com.
A conversation with New York Times best-selling author Shari Lapena, whose novel, NOT A HAPPY FAMILY, has been short-listed for Crime Writers of Canada’s Awards of Excellence for the Best Crime Novel.
About the Author
SHARI LAPENA is the internationally bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, A Stranger in the House, An Unwanted Guest, Someone We Know, The End of Her and Not a Happy Family. She was a lawyer and an English teacher before turning her hand to fiction.
She lives in Toronto.