Carlisle based crime fiction author Mike Craven pictured in Dalston. Mike s latest book The Curator features Dalston as a location for part of the story The 2021 Crime Writers Association (CWA) Dagger awards longlists have been revealed (see below for full listings) with J K Rowling, Ian Rankin, John Banville and Stuart Turton among the authors chosen. For the Gold Dagger, which is awarded for the crime novel of the year, 2019 winner M W Craven, returns with The Curator (Constable). Mike Craven from Carlisle is no stranger to being longlisted. This is latest in the Washing Poe series to be included in the longlist.
A federal grant that was supposed to give Chicago’s independent music venues financial assistance has been facing technical glitches for nearly a week. The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, administered by the U.S. Small Business Association, was only open for a few hours on April 8 before it crashed. The owner of Golden Dagger in Lincoln Park, formerly known as.
I started doing all this work, imagining I already applied for that, said Biggins.
Without knowing when the application will be made available again, he fears he ll have to ask the community for help to keep his dream business afloat.
Many of Chicago’s independent venues have been closed for more than a year.
The SVOG program was supposed to give these venues more money to keep up with rent, utilities, property taxes and more.
Billy Helmkamp, a board member with the Chicago Independent Venue Leauge (CIVL), said more than 50 of the city’s venues are counting on this grant program.
Final hurrah for Australiaâs late, great Jack Irish author
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It was one of the saddest days for Australian literature when the great Peter Temple died in 2018. He was the first crime writer to win the Miles Franklin and he took crime writing onto a new level.
He wrote five standalone novels, including the Miles-winning
Truth, and four featuring his Fitzroy-based fixer of all sorts of problems, Jack Irish. The Irish novels were adapted for the small screen with Guy Pearce and the series will be making a final appearance on the ABC later this year.