31st Scarlet Stiletto Awards: Paint the town red
Multi-award-winning author, Candice Fox, will present Sisters in Crime’s 31st Scarlet Stiletto Awards, after first discussing her life in crime with fellow award-winning author, Sarah Bailey. Read more
Making a killing – 28 stories shortlisted for Sisters in Crime’s 31st Scarlet Stiletto Awards
Sisters in Crime Australia is proud to announce that 28 stories by 28 authors have been shortlisted for its 31st Scarlet Stiletto Awards for best crime short stories written by Australian women. This year 195 stories are vying for a record $13,400 in prize money. All authors receive a framed certificate and, if lucky, they also win one of the 16 prizes on offer. The first-prize winner also scores a spectacular trophy – a scarlet stiletto shoe with a steel stiletto heel plunging into a mount.
TV Noir: from Scandi ice to Outback heat
The global popularity of the Nordic Noir has transformed the production of television crime dramas in Australia. In Transnational TV Crime: From Scandinavia to the Outback, Sue Turnbull and Marion McCutcheon explain how. They’ll be canvassing all the issues with Fiona Eagger, co-founder of Every Cloud Productions, and we will all get to watch snippets of some of our favourite programs.
Small towns, deadly secrets: Sisters in Crime@St Kilda Library
The crime novels by Bronwyn Hall (The Chasm), Erina Reddan (Deep in the Forest), and Claire Sutherland (The Crag) are all set in small towns in rural Victoria where idyllic surrounds hide shocking secrets and crimes. It’s up to resourceful and smart women to uncover the truth and put things to right. The three authors will be talking to Sisters in Crime’s Ruth Wykes about why the bush is such a compelling ‘scene of the crime’ and what sent them there.
Murder Monday: Natalie Conyer
For the October Murder, Monday Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem spoke to award-winning Sydney author, Natalie Conyer. Natalie was born and grew up in Cape Town, but has lived in Sydney for many years.
She is a crime fiction tragic, so much so she did a doctorate in it. Her first novel, Present Tense aet in South Africa, won the 2020 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction. Its sequel, Shadow City, was released in September by Echo and is mostly set in Sydney.
Patricia Wolf, Opal
For the October Crime Stack, Echo Publishing has kindly offered 20 copies of Opal, the thrilling third installment in the bestselling DS Lucas Walker series by Patricia Wolf, the Berlin-based author who hails from Mt Isa. A small mining community. A murderer at large. And a flood that has trapped them all . . . …
Stiletto Bites: hours (and hours) of listening pleasure
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Scarlet Stiletto Awards for best short stories in 2023, Sisters in Crime, Susanna Lobez, actor-turned-barrister-turned-broadcaster-turned-true-crime-author, has been progressively narrating the winning stories in a podcast – Scarlet Stiletto Bites: Scintillating stories by Australian women. Find out how to listen here.
New Reviews
Every month Sisters in Crime brings you new reviews from women who write criminally good books.