Olga Popova
Susan Breen
Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition
2024 | Shortlisted
The Mystery remains box-shaped, at once a prison and a refuge. Its four walls are, roughly, a Crime, a Mystery, an Enquiry and a Conclusion with an Element of Satisfaction in it.Margery Allingham
Every year since 2014, the CWA and the Margery Allingham Society have jointly held an international competition for a short story of up to 3,500 words.
Our mission is to find the best unpublished short mystery, and not only that, but one which fits into Golden Age crime writer Margery Allingham’s definition of what makes a great mystery story.
Entries are invited from all writers, published or unpublished, writing in English.
All announcements will also appear on this website.
Please address any queries to the CWA Secretary: secretary@thecwa.co.uk or Competitions Coordinator: comps@thecwa.co.uk.
Susan Breen
Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition
2024 | Shortlisted
Kirsten Ehrlich Davies
Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition
2024 | Shortlisted
Emma O’Driscoll
Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition
2024 | Shortlisted
Meeti Shah
Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition
2024 | Shortlisted
Camilla Smith
Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition
2024 | Shortlisted
Yvonne Walus
Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition
2024 | Shortlisted
Author | Title | |
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Tim Adler | Premonition | |
Cailey Barber | Smoking Dogs | |
Steve Beresford | Marlie Malin’s Murder | |
Susan Breen | Olga Popova | |
Tim Butterworth | Kara Boska | |
Nandini Doreswamy | Coronation Night | |
Kirsten Ehrlich Davies | The Pact | |
Emma O’Driscoll | A Quarrel Between Friends | |
Meeti Shah | The Ladies’ Tailor | |
Camilla Smith | Horses for Courses | |
Yvonne Walus | Right Place Wrong Time | |
Nicole Wells | Rock Lobster Red |
We asked Martin Edwards, the inaugural winner of the CWA/Margery Allingham Short Story competition for 6 great tips and here they are:
Find out more about Martin here and about Crafting Crime, his online crime-writing course here.
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