From time to time we post news from outside Sisters in Crime Australia. This is all crime and women crime writing related, of course!
Submitted by Carmel on 24 April 2015 – 7:11pm Sisters in Crime Australia has presented its first Lifetime Membership Awards – to Vivienne Colmer and Robin Bowles on 13 March and to Phyllis King on 17 April. Each recipient received a red Sisters in Crime Lifetime Membership card and a framed pulp-style book cover designed by …
Submitted by Carmel on 17 April 2015 – 5:13pm Series 3 of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries starts 8.30pm Friday 8 May on ABC1 – and it’s part of a much wider Festival of Phryne. Hooray! Returning to Rippon Lea House & Gardens in Melbourne on Friday 1 May is with a major new exhibition featuring …
Submitted by Carmel on 15 February 2015 – 2:22pm Sisters in Crime members and supporters are warmly welcomed to the launch of Ellie Marney’s, Every Move, the 3rd (and final) book in her Every Young Adult crime series – 6-8pm Monday 16 March – Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon St, Carlton Adele Walsh, the Program Coordinator …
Submitted by Carmel on 15 February 2015 – 2:46pm The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) is offering a 10% discount to Sisters in Crime members to attend its inaugural conference at Balmain Town Hall in Sydney on 21-22 March. It is also offering the opportunity to submit an academic paper to a special edition of …
Submitted by Carmel on 24 December 2014 – 4:48pm In late November Sisters in Crime Australia paid tribute to recently retired national co-convenor, Phyllis King, and retiring Davitt Judges wrangler (and former convenor), Tanya King-Carmichael. Fellow convenor, Jessica Fichera, designed pulp-style book cover certificates to honour the mother-daughter team who devoted so much time, energy …
Submitted by Carmel on 30 November 2014 – 7:33pm Anna Krien, who won the 2014 Sisters in Crime’s Davitt Award for True Crime has won the UK William Hill Sports Book of the Year, only the second woman to do so in the 26-year history of the award. Her book Night Games: Sex, Power and …
Submitted by Carmel on 28 November 2014 – 10:37pm Sisters in Crime Australia mourns the death of British crime queen, P D James, who died at the age of 94 on Thursday (27 November 2014) at her home in Oxford. James, a public servant, had her first book published at the age of 42 and …
Submitted by Carmel on 22 November 2014 – 4:37pm Judith Bridge (centre), a Perth-based short story writer, singer, songwriter, playwright and actor has won the HarperCollins First Prize ($1500) in Sisters in Crime Australia’s 21th Scarlet Stiletto Awards with her short story, “Amy’s Sandal”, an unusual crime tale about a ‘girlwoman’ with mental health issues …
Submitted by Carmel on 22 November 2014 – 6:30pm Good news – Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries has a future after series 3 (currently in production). At last year’s Scarlet Stiletto Awards, Sisters in Crime members were all busy signing a petition to the ABC calling to commission for a 3rd series ofMiss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries …
Submitted by Carmel on 13 October 2014 – 11:57am What are the challenges – and joys – of moving from journalism to true crime? Journalists Belinda Hawkins, Suzanna Lobez and Meg Norris cut to the thrust with crime author and former journalist Lindy Cameron at an event hosted by crime buff’s organisation, Sisters in Crime …