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WE HAVE A WINNER! May Rinaldi!
Our Black Spring Crime imprint is delighted to announce the winner for our Crime Prize 2023! In what was an incredible shortlist, it proved to be very difficult to choose...
WE HAVE A WINNER! May Rinaldi!
Our Black Spring Crime imprint is delighted to announce the winner for our Crime Prize 2023! In what was an incredible shortlist, it proved to be very difficult to choose...

Catherine Swire has won this year’s Best of the...
The winner of the 2022 Best of the Bottom Drawer Prize is announced… Catherine Swire has won this year’s Best of the Bottom Drawer prize with her book Dozen: Ash,...
Catherine Swire has won this year’s Best of the...
The winner of the 2022 Best of the Bottom Drawer Prize is announced… Catherine Swire has won this year’s Best of the Bottom Drawer prize with her book Dozen: Ash,...

The Winner Of The 2022 Black Spring Crime Writi...
Congratulations to Clare Grant! .The Winner Of The 2022 Black Spring Press Crime Writing Prize is: The Winter of Shadows by Clare Grant Competition judge and crime author Martin Penny...
The Winner Of The 2022 Black Spring Crime Writi...
Congratulations to Clare Grant! .The Winner Of The 2022 Black Spring Press Crime Writing Prize is: The Winter of Shadows by Clare Grant Competition judge and crime author Martin Penny...

The Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize 2...
Jason Eng Hun Lee, our distinguished judge for this year's competition, offers us his final decision: "It was my great pleasure to judge this year’s shortlist of eighteen manuscripts, which showcased...
The Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize 2...
Jason Eng Hun Lee, our distinguished judge for this year's competition, offers us his final decision: "It was my great pleasure to judge this year’s shortlist of eighteen manuscripts, which showcased...

THE BLACK SPRING CRIME PRIZE YEAR THREE!
Our first year winner, Rob McClure (his pen name), for The Scotsman, is out this autumn, and being pitched to shops across the USA on May 5th. Our second year...
THE BLACK SPRING CRIME PRIZE YEAR THREE!
Our first year winner, Rob McClure (his pen name), for The Scotsman, is out this autumn, and being pitched to shops across the USA on May 5th. Our second year...

WE HAVE A CRIME PRIZE WINNER!
Black Spring Press Crime Fiction Prize 2020 Winner: Expiation by Stephen Welsh Honourable mentions to: No Such Thing as Goodbye by Karmen Spiljak & Canebrake by Benjamin Kirby Our judge Martin...
WE HAVE A CRIME PRIZE WINNER!
Black Spring Press Crime Fiction Prize 2020 Winner: Expiation by Stephen Welsh Honourable mentions to: No Such Thing as Goodbye by Karmen Spiljak & Canebrake by Benjamin Kirby Our judge Martin...