WRITE Festival: An Audience with M. W. Craven

*Booking required

Join us as we welcome multi award-winning author M. W. Craven to The Word who will discuss his Cumbria-set Washington Poe series, including his latest and fifth book in the series, The Botanist.

For more information and to book tickets see: An Audience with M.W. Craven.

Tickets £3 per person. Suitable for ages 16+.

About M. W. Craven

Multi-award winning author M. W. Craven was born in Carlisle but grew up in Newcastle. He joined the army at sixteen, leaving ten years later to complete a degree in social work. Seventeen years after taking up a probation officer role in Cumbria, at the rank of assistant chief officer, he became a full-time author.

The Puppet Show, the first book in his Cumbria-set Washington Poe series, was published by Little, Brown in 2018 and went on to win the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in 2019. It has now been translated into twenty-five languages. Black Summer, the second in the series, was longlisted for the 2020 Gold Dagger as was book three, The Curator. The fourth in the series, Dead Ground, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. The Cutting Season, a novella for the Quick Reads adult literacy programme was published in April and The Botanist, the fifth Poe and Tilly novel is published in June.

He lives in Carlisle with his wife, Joanne and when he isn't talking nonsense in the pub, he can usually be found at punk gigs and writing festivals up and down the country.

Website: mwcraven.com
Twitter: @MWCravenUK

About WRITE Festival 2022

This event is part of The Word's WRITE Festival which is being across the whole of September at The Word and other library venues.

Enjoy a programme of unmissable events, workshops and performances!

Find out more at: WRITE Festival.