Closing 31 August: 28th Scarlet Stiletto Awards with a record $11,910 in prize money
Sisters in Crime’s 28th Scarlet Stiletto Awards for best short crime and mystery stories is now open and offering a record $11,910 in prizes this year.
Murder Monday: Liz Evans
For the August Murder Monday, Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem spoke to Liz Evans, British journalist, author, former psychotherapist, and academic with a PhD in Creative Writing. Luckily, for us, she has moved to Australia. She has been awarded two Varuna Residential Fellowships and the Katharine Susannah Prichard Fellowship, as well as an Arts Tasmania grant for an Education Residency. Her debut novel is the wonderfully titled Catherine Wheel (Ultimo Press).
Red Herrings
Catch up with the latest crime events from around the nation. So many authors, so many books, so many festivals and so much talent – and so much reading pleasure ahead. It’s wonderful to see so many Sisters in Crime authors featured at the BAD Sydney Crime Writing 2024 Festival, Thursday 12 September-Sunday 14 September:
NSW Chapter online: Alexandra Larach in conversation with Lisa Kenway
FREE Join Alexandra Larach as she meets with debut author Lisa Kenway. We will be discussing her debut novel, All You Took from Me, and her journey to this point. Lisa Kenway is a writer and anaesthetist from the NSW Central Coast. Her debut novel was inspired by her longstanding fascination with memory and consciousness. An earlier version …
1868 Melbourne, real and imagined: Jane Sullivan
For the August Author Spotlight, Narrelle M Harris spoke with author and literary journalist, Jane Sullivan about her debut crime novel, Murder in Punch Lane (Echo Publishing). It was inspired by the historical life and death of young actress, Marie St Denis, in Melbourne in 1868. She was drawn to write about Marie after reading her
obituary.
The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated: Emily Gale
The complexity of criminal behaviour is one of the themes that Emily Gale and Nova Weetman loved exploring in Outlaw Girls, their time-slip novel in which one of the central characters is Kate Kelly, younger sister of the Australian bushranger and gang leader Ned Kelly.
Jane Sullivan, Murder in Punch Lane
For the August Crime Stack, Echo Publishing has kindly offered 20 copies of Murder in Punch Lane, by Jane Sullivan, the literary correspondent for Nine Newspapers, and a former Davitt judge for Sisters in Crime.
Inspired by real events and people, Murder in Punch Lane is a dark and gripping crime novel that maps the sins and secrets of nineteenth-century Melbourne.
Sisters in Crime announces a long(ish) shortlist for its 24th Davitt Awards
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced a shortlist of 19 books for its 24th Davitt Awards – seven adult novels, four non-fiction books, two YA adult novels, four children’s novels. A reminder for members to vote for the Davitt (Readers’ Choice) will be sent out on 30 July, with the vote closing on 31 July.
KILLARNEY
A chid protection worker is searching for a missing foster child in this gripping story. A town cut off by floodwater, drug trafficking, family feuds… who can Dana trust?
OUTLAW GIRLS
Ruby and Kate have three things in common – they both live in Victoria’s high country, they’ve both got on the wrong side of the law, and they share a love of horses. But they live 144 years apart. This YA novel sheds light on Australian girls whose stories were never told.
RADIANT HEAT
When a catastrophic wildfire rips through a woman’s hometown, she’s lucky to survive. Then she finds a dead woman in her driveway, clutching a piece of paper with her name on it.