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$2600 in prize money – St Kilda Historical Society Short Story Competition

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the St Kilda Historical Society is holding a short story competition. You may write on any theme, in any genre and in any time period, providing that the story is inspired by or set in St Kilda.  There are two categories - open and junior. Open Section The winner of ...

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2020 New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing now closing 31 August

The New England Writers’ Centre is proud to announce that entries are now open for the 2020 New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing. In this, the eighth year of the Prize, there are six awards on offer for crime writers. All genres of crime writing are eligible, from hard-boiled to comic, paranormal to rural, ...

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$5 – $10

 S.D. Harvey Short Crime Story Award now open

The Kennedy Foundation is delighted to announce it will host the 111h S.D. Harvey Short Crime Story Award in conjunction with the second Kennedy Lecture dinner in September 2020. Sandra Harvey was an outstanding print journalist and television producer as well as author and co-author of five true crime books. With long-time collaborator Lindsay Simpson ...

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$50

Writing NSW Varuna Fellowships

The Writing NSW Varuna Fellowships are awarded annually to writers who have a work of fiction, creative non-fiction, a play, or a suite of poems that is ready for the next stage of development. Winners receive a week-long residency at Varuna, the National Writer’s House, and a manuscript assessment from the participating publisher. In 2020, two ...

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MOOC The Clinical Autopsy: Learning to Understand the Language of the Dead

MOOC The Clinical Autopsy: Learning to Understand the Language of the Dead  is being offered from the University of Oviedo/Central University Hospital of Asturias (Spain). This is a unique course, running from 8 June to 12 July, with more than 150 minutes of real-life autopsies that aims to celebrate everything we can learn from death ...

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Free

Writing NSW: Online: Crime Writing with Marianne Delacourt

Join award-winning author Marianne Delacourt for this six-week online crime writing course starting on 22 June, to discover the basics of crime writing. Learn how to craft a charismatic protagonist, how to research real-life details and, importantly, where your book can fit in the market. 22 June to 31 July 2020, online Marianne Delacourt Marianne Delacourt is ...

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$395 – $660

Wayward Women in Herstorical Crime@Geelong Regional Libraries (Zoom)

Join Geelong Regional Libraries for the first of its new Wine and Crime events - a webinar. Geelong Regional Libraries is partnering with Sisters in Crime Australia to present Wayward Women in Herstorical Crime with four panellists (pictured L-R): Tara Mitchell (Panel Chair), National Convenor of Sisters in Crime, who is currently writing her first ...

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