2026 Davitt Awards: how to enter
Everything you need to know about entering your book in the Davitt Awards.
Sisters In Crime News
32nd Scarlet Stiletto Awards: Go wild in scarlet!
Sydney-based award-winning author Dinuka McKenzie will present Sisters in Crime’s 32nd Scarlet Stiletto Awards for best short stories, after first discussing her life in crime with award-winning author, Amanda Hampson.
Fabulous, feisty, fun & Phryne: How we celebrated the life of Kerry Greenwood
Over 140 Sisters in Crime and Brothers-in-Law gathered at the Hotel Windsor’s Grand Ballroom on Sunday (28/9) for Fabulous, feisty, fun & Phryne to pay tribute to the life and legacy of Kerry Greenwood. It was a grand location and a grand occasion. Almost everyone was ‘frocked up for Phryne’ – or ‘suited up’, as the case may be. As the host of the event, Sisters in Crime’s Ambassador Sue Turnbull remarked, Kerry would have been proud, and jealous she could not be there.
Sisters in Crime: Defying the Tyranny of Distance — A New WA Chapter Unites Women Crime Writers and Crime Readers
Sisters in Crime WA will debut at the Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival in Geraldton in October 2025. The festival has warmly welcomed the initiative, and the group is thrilled to be part of the event. You’ll catch the Sisters speaking on Saturday 25 October, 4-6 pm, at Batavia Brewery, 60 Fitzgerald Street, Geraldton. Free . You can also stay on a meal,
Win a copy of Hot Ground
Fremantle Press is generously donating twenty copies of Hot Ground by Lisa Ellery for this month’s Crime Stack. Detective Jessy Parkin – sent to policing purgatory in the aftermath of a tainted investigation – is tasked with finding Max Cochrane, a veteran prospector who has vanished into thin air.
There’s Nothing Like a Dame: Denise Mina & Bloody Scotland
Sisters in Crime’s roving reporter Lucy Sussex is attending the crime festival Bloody Scotland in September. As a taster, a wee dram, she interviewed Tartan noir author Denise Mina who has produced twenty award-winning crime novels, plus plays, comics, and graphic novels since 1996.
“Women’s crime writing has come of age”: Sisters in Crime’s 25th Davitt Awards winners announced
“Australian women’s crime writing has well and truly come of age,” says Ruth Wykes, the Judges’ Coordinator for Sisters in Crime’s 25th Davitt Awards for best women’s crime and mystery books, which were announced on Friday night [5/9] in Melbourne’s Angliss Restaurant. “The Davitt Awards have transformed the literary landscape over the past three decades. …
Win a copy of Nemesis
Echo Publishing is generously donating twenty copies of Patricia Wolf’s fourth gripping instalment in her bestselling DS Walker series. Walker is on assignment for the Australian Federal Police, and it couldn’t be more personal. This is his last chance to take down Stefan Markovich – leader of the Vandals outlaw motorcycle gang – the man who has managed to evade justice ever since Walker uncovered his drug operation in Australia’s remote interior.
A stunning new voice: Angie Faye Martin
Melaleuca is a beautifully written, absorbing crime novel that introduces us to a stunning new voice to Australian women’s crime fiction. Angie Faye Martin is a stunning new voice and here she writes about how she got to here and why.
Davitt Awards 2025: Shortlist
After what can only be described as extensive deliberation, the judges have announced the shortlist for the Davitt Awards 2025. Congratulations to all of these very worthy Australian women writers.