{"id":637,"date":"2015-06-05T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T20:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2015-06-05T20:35:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T20:35:55","slug":"cwa-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"CWA Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that I&#8217;ve been accepted as a member of the Crime Writer&#8217;s Association.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CWA-logo-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-639\" src=\"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CWA-logo-3.jpg\" alt=\"CWA logo 3\" width=\"340\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CWA-logo-3.jpg 611w, http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CWA-logo-3-300x294.jpg 300w, http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CWA-logo-3-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">About the Crime Writers\u2019 Association<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The CWA was founded in 1953 \u2013 that\u2019s sixty years of support, promotion and celebration of this most durable, adaptable and successful of genres. We run the prestigious <a title=\"The Daggers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecwa.co.uk\/the-daggers\/\">Dagger Awards<\/a>, which celebrate the best in crime writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Crime Writers\u2019 Association is one organisation with over 600 ambassadors. It\u2019s been sixty years since John Creasey founded the CWA with the remit of promoting and supporting the genre. The association has gone from strength to strength without losing sight of our original mission and our membership is diverse with writers at all stages of their writing careers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Crime Readers&#8217; Association<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The CRA was set up by the Crime Writers&#8217; Association to give readers news and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">information from their favourite authors along with tips for beginners working in the genre.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"a30_1\" class=\"sam_ad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecra.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thecwa.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cra-mpu.jpg\" alt=\"Love reading crime? Join the Crime Readers\\\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that I&#8217;ve been accepted as a member of the Crime Writer&#8217;s Association&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alastairgunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}