An interview with Lisa de Nikolits, whose story Somewhere Near Sudbury appears in the Cold Canadian Crime Anthology published by Crime Writers of Canada.
About Lisa de Nikolits
Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits is the award winning author of eleven published novels. She has appeared on recommended reading lists for Open Book Toronto, 49th Shelf, Chatelaine, Canadian Living, Hello! Canada, the Quill & Quire, and most recently, the CBC’s 65 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in fall 2022. The Occult Persuasion and The Anarchist’s Solution was longlisted for a Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of The Fantastic and The Rage Room was a finalist in the International Book Awards, 2021. Everything You Dream is Real is a sequel to The Rage Room or read it as a standalone.
Learn more about Cold Canadian Crime at crimewriterscanada.com
Visit Lisa's website at lisawriter.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Renee Lehnen discusses her novel, ELMINGTON, the winner of the Best Unpublished Manuscript for Crime Writers Canada's 2022 Awards of Excellence.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.
An interview with C.S. O'Cinneide, whose story COOL CUSTOMER appears in the Cold Canadian Crime Anthology published by Crime Writers of Canada.
About the Author
Carole Kennedy is an Edgar nominated author and writes under her Irish name, C.S. O’Cinneide (oh-kin-ay-da). Her debut novel, Petra’s Ghost, a dark thriller set on the Camino de Santiago, was a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019. She is also the author of a tongue-in-cheek noir crime series featuring hard-living hitwoman, Candace Starr. Starr Sign, the second novel in that series has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America’s coveted Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.
On her blog at She Kills Lit, she seeks to spotlight and celebrate women writers of thriller and noir. See here for her manifesto as to why.
A conversation with donalee Moulton, whose short story “Swan Song” appears in the Cold Canadian Crime Anthology published by Crime Writers of Canada.
About the author
donalee Moulton has been writing professionally for over 25 years. Her byline has appeared in more than 100 magazines and newspapers throughout North America – and beyond. Among the publications donalee has written for are The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Equinox, Maclean’s, Canadian Business and The National Post. donalee is also a regular contributor for a number of magazines in Canada.
donalee is a teacher. She has taught writing, editing, grammar and communications for the past 20 years in a variety of programs. She currently teaches numerous business communication courses as part of the Executive and Professional Development program at Saint Mary’s University, and has taught courses at Dalhousie University and Mount Saint Vincent University.
Melodie Campbell discusses her short story DEATH OF A GHOST which is featured in the Anthology, Cold Canadian Crime, published by Crime Writers of Canada.
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.
An interview with Vicki Delany. We discuss her book, MURDER IN A TEACUP, which has been nominated for an Awards of Excellence in The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery category.
About the Author
Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the U.S. She has written more than forty 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 Tea by the Sea mysteries for Kensington, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series for Crooked Lane Books, the Catskill Resort mysteries for Penguin Random House, and the Lighthouse Library series (as Eva Gates) for Crooked Lane.
Vicki is a past president of the Crime Writers of Canada and co-founder and organizer of the Women Killing It Crime Writing Festival. Her work has been nominated for the Derringer, the Bony Blithe, the Ontario Library Association Golden Oak, and the Arthur Ellis Awards. Vicki is the recipient of the 2019 Derrick Murdoch Award for contributions to Canadian crime writing. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
An interview with Cathy Ace who has been shortlisted for the 2022 Awards of Excellence. Her book, THE CORPSE WITH THE IRON WILL has been nominated for The Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada.
About the Author
Cathy Ace migrated from her native Wales to Canada at the age of 40. She is the award-winning author of the traditional Cait Morgan Mysteries featuring her Welsh Canadian criminology professor sleuth who travels the world tripping over corpses, which have now been optioned for TV. She also writes the cozier WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries featuring a quartet of female PIs who run their business out of a Welsh stately home. Both series have been well-reviewed. Her award-winning standalone, THE WRONG BOY, is a gripping novel of psychological suspense, set in Wales, and has also been optioned for TV.