ABSTRACT
Cozy Crimes was created by five women who knew each other, in one of their homes. Cozy crimes are a subgenre of crime fiction in which the sex and violence is less evident or treated humorously and are often set in small, socially intimate communities. The Women’s Institute was formed in 1915 with a remit of involving women in food production during World War One and improving rural communities. It is now the largest voluntary women’s organisation in the UK with 6,300 local groups and 220,000 members. The cycle of talking or hearing spoken words and then writing into the space those words evoked, continued in several iterations, the subject of cozy crimes emerged through the talking/writing process and leaked into the making.
