Painting the town red: Scarlet Stiletto Awards Night
What a night. What winners. Here is the lowdown on the 31st Scarlet Stiletto Awards night. Including all the winners.
What a night. What winners. Here is the lowdown on the 31st Scarlet Stiletto Awards night. Including all the winners.
Carmel Shute, who helped co-found Sisters in Crime Australia in 1991, stood down as Secretary at the 2024 Annual General Meeting on Friday 25 October, following its TV Noir event at South Melbourne’s Rising Sun Hotel. She is being replaced by former President, Moraig Kisler, who is fresh from a year’s break. Carmel will continue to work on programming. A committee of eight was elected unopposed.
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.
Debut books triumphed at Sisters in Crime’s 24th Davitt Awards for best women’s crime and mystery books on Saturday night (31 August). Four of the six winning crime and mystery books were first-time forays into the genre: Monica Vuu (Sandfly, Tas) for Best Adult Novel for When One of Us Hurts (Pan Macmillan Australia); Amy …
Hooray! Fiona Eagger and Deb Cox, the creators of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and much more, will present the 30th Scarlet Stiletto Awards after discussing their lives in crime with host Senior Professor Sue Turnbull, crime fiction scholar, reviewer, and Sisters in Crime Ambassador. Cate Kennedy (picture here) will launch Scarlet Stiletto: The Fifteenth Cut, an-ebook of winning 2023 stories, along with a paperback of the winning stories over the past 30 years, The Scarlet Stiletto: 30 Years of Mystery, Murder and Malice.
Go wild in scarlet and pearls, the traditional 30th-anniversary gift.
Proudly supported by Swinburne University of Technology, Department of Media and Communication Frock up (or suit up) and join us for an à la carte dinner (including antipasto platters on arrival) as we present Sisters in Crime’s annual Davitt Awards, 6.00 for 6.30 pm, Saturday 2 September. This year, our guest presenter is award-winning journalist, …
Join us for an historic (and enjoyable) occasion – the launch of Sisters in Crime’s 30th Scarlet Stiletto Awards hosted by Angela Savage. Susanna Lobez and Leigh Redhead will read the winning Body in the Library stories from 2021 and 2022.