Presenting Once Upon A Crime’s 2026 Speaker Schedule

Registration links will be posted here and in our Facebook and Whatsapp group the month prior to the talk. Members only meetings are held at our usual write-in Zoom link.

To become a member of Once Upon A Crime, please take a look at our Membership page.

28 January: Fran Riccardi, Kate Nash Agency on The Role of a Literary Agent

25 February: Stephanie Argy, Editor and Publishing Consultant: an Editor’s Perspective plus tips for authors. (Members Only)

25 March: Wendy H Jones, Author and Member of SINC International Board with her
insight and advice on marketing our work. (Members and Wider SinC Community)

29 April: Myths of modern policing, an update for crime writers. (TBC)

27 May: Vaseem Khan on his route to best-selling crime plus how to switch genres within crime fiction.

24 June: Rebecca Flanagan, an ex-crime scene investigator for West Midlands police
shares her real-life experience of crime scenes and the CSM role.

Tuesday 28 July: Yvonne Battle-Felton, crime author and Director of Creative Writing at
Cambridge University on developing character in crime fiction.

26 August: Melissa Williams-Pope on wellbeing for crime authors. (Members Only)

30 September: Prof Jim Fraser, University of Strathclyde, researcher and expert witness in forensic science: No Stone Unturned, busting the myths of forensics.

28 October: Author talk from one of crime’s diverse sub-genres.

25 November: Mystery Christmas guest plus Quiz (Members Only)