Crime Workshop with Martin Edwards & David Mark
Join two powerhouses of literary acclaim, authors Martin Edwards and David Mark for a special Goldster event. In celebration of Agatha Christie month, immerse yourself in the world of "cosy crime" in a day of writing exercises and inspiration plus learn how to enter our creative writing competition!The aim of the day is to provide an overview of the world of cosy crime, as spearheaded by the mighty Agatha. The workshop will help participants to craft their own Marple/Poirot style story outline and maximise their chances of winning the Goldster Agatha Christie Crime Writing Contest: first prize, a detailed manuscript assessment and one-to-one itinerary consultation with bestselling author and creative writing tutor David Mark.
Submissions must be sent to team@goldster.co.uk by October 15th. Please submit these with the subject title "Crime Writing Submission"
No more than 1,000 words in length.
Please see below in the resources section, an introduction written by David Mark. The competition challenge, as explored and developed during the half-day workshop is to write the 'final scene' at the end of this fictional book - the grand reveal at the climax of the novel.
Resources
A Marriage Of Inconvenience Story Prompt (1)
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David spent more than fifteen years as a journalist, including seven years as a crime reporter with the Yorkshire Post - walking the Hull streets that would later become the setting for the Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy novels.
His writing is heavily influenced by the court cases he covered: the defeatist and jaded police officers; the competent and incompetent investigators; the inertia of the justice system and the sheer raw grief of those touched by savagery and tragedy.
He has written eight novels in the McAvoy series: Dark Winter, Original Skin, Sorrow Bound, Taking Pity, Dead Pretty, Cruel Mercy, Scorched Earth and Cold Bones as well as two McAvoy novellas, A Bad Death and Fire of Lies, which are available as ebooks. His first historical thriller, The Zealot’s Bones, is out now.
Dark Winter was selected for the Harrogate New Blood panel (where he was Reader in Residence) and was a Richard & Judy pick and a Sunday Times bestseller. Dead Pretty was longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger in 2016.
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