Sisters in Crime Australia held its Annual General Meeting on Friday 23 October after a well-attended event at South Melbourne’s Rising Sun Hotel – First Time Offenders where debut authors (and members) Tania Chandler, Emma Viskic and J M Green where interrogated by national co-convenor, Janice Simpson (pictured below). Elected unopposed as national convenors were Maggie …
Sisters in Crime Australia is proud to announce that Danielle Cormack, star ofWentworth, will present its 22nd Scarlet Stiletto Short Story Awards at a gala dinner from 6.30pm, Saturday 28 November at Melbourne’s Thornbury Theatre. This year 191 stories compete for the national awards which offer a record $9,350 in prize money plus the coveted trophy, a scarlet …
Pan Macmillan’s Sophie Anderson accepts Davitt (Best Adult Novel) for Liane Moriarty New York Times best-seller, Big Little Lies (Pan Macmillan Australia) by Sydney writer, Liane Moriarty, has won Sisters in Crime’s Davitt Award (Best Adult Novel). Moriarty told the packed audience at Melbourne’s Thornbury Theatre by video on Saturday night (29 August), “P.D James said ‘we …
Open invitation to the launch of Good Money by J. M. Green Start Date: 5 November 2015 – 6:00pm Join Sister in Crime J. M. Green for the launch of her debut crime novel, Good Money, by Toni Jordan”. Good Money introduces Stella Hardy, a social worker out to solve the murder of a boy …
First Time Offenders – Tania Chandler, Emma Viskic, & J M (Jenny) Green – discuss why they turned to crime with such a passion with Janice Simpson Start Date: 23 October 2015 – 8:00pm Chandler, Viskic and Green all have different backgrounds, all took different routes to crime writing and all have created wildly different …
Start Date: 3 October 2015 (All day) Sandi Wallace and Honey Brown in line-up of 2015 Coal Creek Literary Festival Sisters in Crime authors Sandi Wallace and Honey Brown are among a line-up of nine authors talking about their books and writing at this year’s Coal Creek Literary Festival, Coal Creek Complex, Korumburra 11.00am-6.30pm Saturday …