St Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend: September 4-6, 2026

St Hilda's 33rd Crime Fiction Weekend announced its theme: Bad Apples: crime fiction's enemies and anti-heroes. 

St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.

September 4-6, 2026

From con artists to killers, crime fiction has served up some of the very best bad apples in all of literature. Ripley, Moriarty, Lecter and many more are responsible for prompting our heroes to action, presenting puzzles, peril and confrontations aplenty. This 33rd Crime Fiction Weekend explores the dark core of these characters, and discusses why we love them – or love to hate them – so much.

Guest of Honour: Andrew Taylor

Speakers:

Jo Callaghan 

Ajay Chowdhury 

Abigail Dean 

Vaseem Khan 

Remi Kone 

Simon Mason 

Ayo Onatade 

Hallie Rubenhold 

Laura Shepherd-Robinson 

Sarah Vaughan 

Martyn Waites