Australia’s premier short story awards for crime fiction written by Australian women. Note: contact details have changed. All enquiries should be sent to the Scarlet Stilettos administrator Ruth Wykes. QUICK INFO: Make sure to read ALL THE INFO below before entering! And if you now need some quick links here they are: BEFORE YOU ENTER …
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Australia’s premier short story awards for crime fiction written by Australian women. The awards ceremony for the Scarlet Stiletto Awards is usually held in Melbourne in mid to late November. More information in due course.
With more than $13,000 in prizes up for grabs. The Scarlet Stilettos are Australia’s premier short story awards for crime fiction written by Australian women. More female criminal talent – of the literary kind – is about to be uncovered!
Australia’s premier short story awards for crime fiction written by Australian women. As ever, the Scarlet Stiletto Awards are supported by a huge number of wonderful sponsors. We thank them from the bottom of our hearts for their commitment. Without these organisations the Scarlet Stiletto Awards would not be what they are: the premier short …
Carmel Shute, the co-founder of Sisters in Crime in 1991, spoke to Graduate House at the University of Melbourne on 4 June. She was pleased that that the audience included a few Sisters in Crime members – Katrina Watson, Di Lightfoot, and K L Joy.
Text Publishing is generously donating five copies of four of its best-sellers for the June Crime Stack – Traced by Catherine Jinks, Lay Your Body Down by Amy Suiter Clarke, No One Will Know by Rose Carlyle, and The Name of the Sister by Gail Jones. Join now to be in the running for a free copy.
Allen & Unwin is generously donating 20 copies of Lyrebird by Sydney writer, Jane Caro, for the May Crime Stack. Sue Turnbull, reviewer and Sisters in Crime ambassador says, “It’s hard to imagine a more Australian premise for a crime novel than that of Lyrebird.”
Best-selling UK author, Emylia Hall, spoke to Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem for the April Murder Monday. She lives in Bristol where she writes in a hut in the garden and dreams of the sea.
Playing with the whodunnit conventions, Ex from Alicia Thompson is a slow uncovering of the impacts of those close the the event. Alicia Thompson talks with Natalie Conyer about how she developed the story, the importance of notebooks (dated!) and where she found the starting point amongst all the story lines, themes and key plot points.