20th June 2006

Comma Press is the new offical publisher of the official CWA anthology. The first installment to be launched is ID: Crimes of Identity. Calls are now out for stories for its 2007 anthology: MO: Crimes of Practice. Sought after are stories that deal with not just the criminal's modus operandi, but also the detective's MO, and for that matter, the media's MO, the judicial system's MO and so on... The anthology "wishes to explore both 'the aesthetic of practice' in its own right, and also the point when practice become so routine important it divorces itself from any original ethos behind it; i.e. when the tail starts wagging the dog." So get your thinking cap on and pen in hand. 

Stories should be between 500 and 5000 words and submitted to the editor Martin Edwards ([email protected]), rather than to Comma's editors.

This is not a new writer project. Authors must already be a published writer (i.e. have poetry or fiction published in book form). Eventually all those published in the anthology need to be members of the CWA, but membership can be arranged or renewed after submission, if necessary.
For more information about the CWA go to www.thecwa.co.uk.