CrimeFest has announced DG Coutinho as the recipient of its 2025 bursary for a crime-fiction writer of colour.
The bursary covers the cost of a full Weekend Pass to the convention and a night’s accommodation at the Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel. Coutinho will also appear on a panel at the final CrimeFest.
Last year, the organisers announced that this year’s convention will be the last to be hosted in Bristol after 16 years, and will feature a lineup of authors including Lee and Andrew Child, Simon Brett, Lindsey Davis and Martin Edwards, among others.
Coutinho has also won the Bloody Scotland Harvill Secker Crime Writing Competition for under-represented writers, and is the author of The Light and Shade of Ellen Swithin (Harvill Secker), a darkly comic thriller exploring toxic work culture.
Coutinho said: “Readers meeting Ellen learn she’s a total nerd who loves live music, and tech. She’s just trying to bag a promotion, pay for her wedding, and navigate life as a Black woman in a white male-dominated profession. She’s ambitious, smart, and a bit of an outsider.”
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