Jamie Bernthal-Hooker

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Next month, the Seagull Amateurs, my local theatre company, is staging a play I wrote! Seeing the cast in character is really special.

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We are extremely lucky to kick off day two with our amazing keynote! The amazing @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social discussing Golden Age Detective Fiction as War Fiction. 🕵🏻‍♀️🔪✨

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DAY ONE 🕵🏻‍♀️🔪🧶 is underway! ✨

We are so excited for some amazing papers this morning. Are you joing us? What panel are you excited for?!

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I’m so excited that, in 2 days, we are launching both Silent Echoes, a golden age crime conference and Ten Little Mysteries, a book of new fiction inspired by the Golden Age. Get a sneak preview of the introduction here: jcbernthal.com/2025/09/07/c...

Extremely excited to see this come together. It’s a great and timely issue!

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Double Crossing Van Dine DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!   As the Golden Age of Mystery began to flourish, the books spread their wings and, in some cases, stretched believability. These authors sometimes shocked the readers, but a...

Out today from Crippen & Landru: Double Crossing Van Dine! I'm honoured to have a story in this collection, where each author breaks one of S.S. Van Dine's sacred rules of detective fiction writing.

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Thank you so much!

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And the Short Story Dagger 2024 WINNER is…

JC BERNTHAL, for ‘A Date on Yarmouth Pier’
Published in Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards
(Flame Tree Press)

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This is fabulous news and very well deserved for Festival Friend, the amazing Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker. Well done Jamie!

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Thank you, Tina x

I can't quite believe this, but my first mainstream fiction publication, 'A Date on Yarmouth Pier', has been shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger!!!!!!

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Issue 15.1 of Book 2.0 is in @intellectbooks.bsky.social! Thx, to my BFF @jcbernthal.com & to our fab contributors, for a great issue! Here's to the next 50.

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To commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, as part of our September Festival, we will have a glamorous VE Day themed ball in the Grand, and talks from @jcbernthal.com and experts from @isokongallery.bsky.social on Agatha Christie's life and work during the war
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A few days left to send in your abstracts! See you there?! 🕵🏻‍♀️🔍✨

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#CrimeFiction @agathafestival.bsky.social

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After launching the very exciting no-longer-secret project, I’m at the theatre. It is funny.

What a fabulous concept!
Congratulations to @markaldridge.info @jcbernthal.com @michellekazmer.bsky.social and Gray Robert Brown.

All 4 of these brilliant Agathaologists are speaking at this year's Festival in September. We can't wait!

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🔍✨EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT✨🔍

We are thrilled to announce our 2025 keynote for Golden Age of Crime, @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social ! @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Read more about Prof. Meyer and her fascinating research below👇🏻

✨Submissions open until 5th May✨

Call For Papers: Golden Age Crime Fiction Conference Silent Echoes: Golden Age Crime Fiction and Trauma Florida State University London Study Centre, 12–13 September 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds) Please note: thi…

There's still time to submit your paper proposal, too! We are looking for 20-minute papers. Submissions close 5 May. jcbernthal.com/2025/03/16/c...

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❗We are excited to announce our keynote speaker for 'Silent Echoes: Golden Age Crime Fiction and Trauma', at FSU's London Study Centre in September. Professor Jessica Meyer @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social is an expert on masculinity, war, and popular culture whose work we LOVE. We cannot wait.