Friday, 16 May 2025
13:40 - 14:30
The Panel are Elizabeth Chakrabarty, Sarah Dunnakey,
Jo Furniss, Christine Poulson,
and the participating Moderator is Sarah Ward.
Dr Elizabeth Chakrabarty was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and shortlisted for the Polari
First Book Prize in 2022 for her novel Lessons in Love and Other
Crimes, published in 2021 by the Indigo Press with her essay ‘On
Closure and Crime’. An interdisciplinary writer of fiction, poems and essays,
she was also shortlisted in 2022 for a short story published in The
Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction 2022: Crime Stories (Comma
Press). Sarah Dunnakey has won a Northern Writer's Award for Fiction
and the NWA Arvon Award. Her debut novel The Companion - a murder
mystery set in the 1930s and the modern day was published by Orion in 2017. In
November 2024 Avon published Sarah's The Twelve Murders of Christmas: twelve
murderous stories, twenty fiendish puzzles and one final mystery to solve. Sarah
also writes and verifies questions for quiz shows including Mastermind, University
Challenge and Pointless.
Jo Furniss
is the author of crime novels Dead Mile and Guilt Trip,
plus psychological thrillers All the Little Children, The
Trailing Spouse and The Last to Know. After spending a
decade as a broadcast journalist for the BBC, Jo gave up the glamour of night
shifts to become a freelance writer and expat. Originally from the United
Kingdom, she lived in Singapore, Switzerland and Cameroon. Jo also writes
for the Short History Of podcast from Noiser. jofurniss.com
Christine Poulson
was an academic with a PhD in History of Art. Then she turned to crime. She has
written three medical thrillers, Deep Water (2016) Cold Cold Heart
(2017), set in Antarctica, and An Air That Kills (2019). In 2018 she was
short-listed for both the Margery Allingham Prize and the CWA Short Story
Dagger. Safe as Houses, a collection of her short stories, will be
published by Comma Press in November.
Sarah Ward
is the author of ten crime novels. A Patient Fury, was the Observer
book of the month and The Quickening a Radio Times book of the
year. She is currently writing two series – one set in New England and the
other in West Wales where she lives. She has also written Doctor Who
audio dramas. Sarah is former Vice-Chair of the Crime Writers Association and
now helps organise Gŵyl Crime Cymru Festival.
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