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7th annual New England Crime Bake

Al Blanchard Award

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The 7th Annual New England Crime Bake will be held November 14-16, 2008.   

Guest of Honor:

Best-selling author Harlan Coben

 

Al Blanchard Award

In memory of Al Blanchard, co-chair of the first three New England Crime Bake Conferences, NEMWA President and member of Sisters in Crime, the New England Crime Bake Committee is sponsoring the third annual short crime fiction contest. The prize is $100 plus publication in Level Best Books' fifth anthology of short crime fiction. The story must be a crime story by a New England author OR with a New England setting, previously unpublished (in print or electronically), no more than 5,000 words in length, and may include the following genres: mystery, thriller, suspense, caper, and horror, with no torture/killing of children or animals. This is a blind contest with NO entry fee. The winner will be a guest of the Crime Bake Committee at the New England Crime Bake, held in November, where the award will be presented in person.

The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2008. For specific submission guidelines, visit the Crime Bake website: www.crimebake.org.

 

 

MEMBER NEWS:

Hank Phillipi Ryan's PRIME TIME has been nominated for an Agatha, Best First Novel.

Vaughn C. Hardacker's "It's My Job" is being reprinted in MOUTH FULL OF BULLETS - BEST OF YEAR ONE.

Sheila Connolly will be signing her first book, THROUGH A GLASS, DEADLY (written as Sarah Atwell), at the Kingston, MA (Independence Mall) Borders on Saturday, April 5th, from 2 to 4 p.m.


 

 

 

  

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