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Member, The Crime Writers Association, home of The Dagger Awards
Member, International Thriller Writers honorary society of authors.
Participant, ITW Thriller Roundtable
Nominee, Pushcart Prize 2012, for the short story, “It’s All In The Paperwork”
Richard Godwin writes dark crime fiction, and he lets it slip the net like wash into horror.
He writes plays and black satires.
His work has appeared in many publications, places like A Twist Of Noir and Pulp Metal Magazine. You can find links to his stories on the magazines page. Stories of passion turning on the edge of a razor, and the lies people tell themselves falling apart at the edge of nowhere, while men and women wander a wasteland looking for their souls.
His play ‘The Cure-All’ has been produced on the London stage. It is a dark satire about a group of confidence tricksters using the New Age to rip off their greedy venal customers.
His works in print include ‘Chemical’, in the Anthology ‘Back In 5 Minutes’, Little Episodes Publishing, February 2010; ‘Doll’, in ‘Howl: Tales Of The Feral And Infernal’, Lame Goat Press, March 2010; ‘Face Off’ in ‘Crime Factory Issue #5′, CreateSpace, October 2010; ‘Mother’ in ‘Tainted Tea Winter 2011′, Lulu, February 2011; ‘Pike N Flytrap’ in ‘Needle Magazine of Noir 2010′, Needle Publishing, December 2010; ‘Blazing Aphrodite’ in ‘Lyrotica: An Anthology of Erotic Poetry and Prose’, Vagabondage Press, June 2011; and ‘Pomegranate Moth’ in ‘The Big Book of Bizarro’, Burning Bulb Publishing, July 2011.
His first crime novel ‘Apostle Rising’ was released on March 10, 2011 and is available online and on the shelves of all good bookstores.
It is a dark work of fiction exploring the blurred line between law and lawlessness and the motivations that lead men to kill. It digs into the scarred soul of a cop in the hunt for a killer who has stepped straight from a nightmare into the waking world.
Read more about ‘Apostle Rising’ on the Books page.
Works in eBook format include ‘Face Off’ in the anthology ‘Crime Factory Issue #5′, Amazon Digital Services, 2010; ‘Blister Pack’ in ‘Eight Days of Madness’, Smashwords 2011; ‘Threshhold Woman’ in ‘Pulp Ink’, Needle Publishing, August 2011 and ‘Getting High On Daisy’ in Paul Brazill’s ‘Drunk On The Moon Series’, Trestle Press 2011.