DAVITT AWARDS: AWARD CEREMONY
An awards ceremony will be held mid year in 2025. More information will be posted in due course.
Sisters in Crime General
Murder Monday: Hayley Scrivenor
Multi-award-winning Sydney author, Hayley Scrivenor, spoke to Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem For the November Murder Monday. Hayley’s debut, Dirt Town, was a number-one bestseller in Australia and won several awards, including the UK Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger Award, the ABIA for General Fiction Book of the Year, a Lambda Literary Award and Sisters in Crime’s Davitt Award for best debut book in 2023. Her latest novel is Girl Falling.
When things go wrong
New Zealander Charity Norman, author of Home Truths (Allen & Unwin, 2024) spoke to Sisters in Crime’s Robyn Walton about her latest novel, Home Truths. She chose to set it in North Yorkshire because she knows and loves it – and in the years 2019-2020 because the Covid pandemic triggered a perfect storm of isolation, anxiety and the explosion of online disinformation.
221B Baker Street, werewolves, and me: Narrelle M. Harris
Think every re-working or re-imagining of the great Sherlock Holmes has already been done? Think again! Melbourne’s Narelle M Harris brings us The She-Wolf of Baker Street. The simple question is: what if Mrs Hudson was a werewolf? And it’s a wild ride.
Pip Drysdale, The Close-Up
Love the twisty, turny plots of Pip Drysdale? Twenty copies of her latest The Close-Up are up for grabs in the November Crime Stack draw for members only. The Close-Up is an electrifying, dark and (of course) twisty thriller that follows a young novelist, once full of promise but now failing to live up to it, who becomes embroiled in the life of a hot movie star… and his stalker.
The Crime Stack is a benefit for Sisters in Crime members. Every month there are 20 books to win in a random draw of members.
Join now and be in the running for a complimentary paperback copy of The Close-Up
Davitt Awards 2025
Celebrating 25 years of excellence in crime writing by Australian women.
Entries are now open for the 25th Annual Davitt Awards for the best Australian womens’ crime and mystery books of 2024
25th Davitt Awards: how to enter
For the best Australian women’s crime and mystery books of 2024 Note: contact details have changed. All enquiries should be sent to the judge co-ordinator Ruth Wykes. ENTRY FEES Save 33% with EarlyBird entries from 1-30 November 2024. Full fee entries from 1 December 2024 to 31 January 2025. Entry fees are: $20 per book …
2024 AGM: Carmel Shute stands down as Secretary
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.
Murder Monday: Natalie Conyer
Award-winning Sydney author, Natalie Conyer, is the subject of this Murder Monday. As ever, interviewed by Jacq Ellem.
Veteran cop Schalk Lourens is back in Shadow City. Now suspended and thinking of emigrating to Australia, whilst visiting his daughter in Sydney Lourens is swept up into a minefield of deceit and manipulation by an enemy more powerful and depraved than is imaginable. She talks about how she writes.
Why I turned to crime: Christine Gregory
Christine Gregory became attracted to New-Age ideas in her late teens. This largely involved visits to Bryon Bay to stay at the Arts Factory, late nights of drinking, and a full-throttle immersion into the alternative music scene of the noughties. Twenty-five years later, in an evening writing class the tutor asked students to create a scene incorporating all the five senses. She put pen to paper and like magic, the words flowed.