Cobargo Crime Convention: Friendly, fun and refreshing

Sisters in Crime National Co-convenor, Janice Simpson, reports on the hugely successful Cobargo Crime Convention from 7-9 October. Sisters in Crime partnered with Well Thumbed Books and Four Winds to produce a weekend of women’s crime and music. Janice also gave a keynote address on behalf of Sisters in Crime. Cobargo is nestled into the …

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SheKilda 3: A one-day crime spree

Sisters in Crime announces its 25th Anniversary Convention  St Kilda Town Hall ~ 19 November 2016 SheKilda3 will celebrate a quarter of a century of reading, watching, promoting and loving women’s crime writing on the page and screen. Our third national convention – for readers, writers and fans of Australian women’s crime writing – will be held in the …

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16th annual GALA Davitt Awards Dinner

Tickets are selling fast to our premier frock-up event on Saturday 27 August, 7 pm. Liane Moriarty – global literary sensation and winner of the 2015 Davitt Award for Best Adult novel – is our special guest presenter.   She will be interrogated about her six international bestsellers by Vikki  Petraitis. The Davitt Awards, proudly supported by Booktopia, Australia’s No. 1 …

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Booktopia deal on Davitt Books

Booktopia, Australian pre-eminent online bookseller,which is sponsoring this year’s Sisters in Crime’s Davitt Awards for Best Crime Books, is offering a discount for most books on the Davitt long-list below. Part of the sale price goes to support Sisters in Crime. Just click here so that Booktopia knows we sent you. Davitt Awards – Long List 2016 …

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Death in the Faculty: Crime & Academia

This Melbourne Sisters in Crime event on 22 July 2016 was a sell-out – and included a big turn out from the academy, with at least five professors in attendance. The debate about the long-standing relationship between crime fiction and academia was led by Sue Turnbull, a Professor in Media and Communications, University of Wollongong …

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