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Wayward Women exhibition to 30 June 2020: Old Treasury Building, Melbourne

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

This exhibition presents ten stories about individual women’s lives in the past.  All of the women could be described as ‘wayward’.  Either intentionally, or through force of circumstance, they transgressed society’s rules in some way. Some prospered, but others paid dearly for their actions. The women and girls featured in this exhibition all lived in ...

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Free

True Crime Mysteries: Misadventure in Little Lon – MIGW Launch Event

State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

The world's first true crime augmented reality (AR) mobile game True Crime Mysteries: Misadventure in Little Lon, is launching on  Sunday 6 October as part of Melbourne International Games Week. Created by Victorian husband and wife team Andy Yong and Emma Ramsay from studio 10Tickles, it propels players through iconic locations in Melbourne's CBD to solve a historic mystery; ...

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2019 New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing now open

Entries are now open for the 2019 New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing. In this, the seventh year of this prestigious 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, historical to contemporary, noir to cosy. Entries welcome from ...

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$5 – $10

Sisters @Mornington Peninsula & Frankston Writers and Book Festival

Functions by the Bay corner Young St and Plowman  Pl, Frankston, Vic, Australia

Catch up with various Sisters in Crime at the Mornington Peninsula & Frankston Writers and Book Festival: Saturday 19- Sunday 20 October   SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER  12.15pm – Sue Ingleton & Cheryl Adam/ MP crime writer talks 3.15pm – Andrea McCall – A tribute to Dame Agatha Christie SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER  10:30am -12:30pm: Workshop with ...

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$20 – $35

History Repeats: 2019 Historical Novel Society Australasia Conference

WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY, PARRAMATTA Victoria Rd,, Rydalmere, NSW, Australia

A major event celebrating writers and readers of historical fiction will be take place on 25-27 October 2019 at the historic Parramatta campus of Western Sydney University. The weekend of interviews, panels, discussions and historical weapons re-enactments will be a celebration of all forms of the genre. Historical crime writers, Janet Lee, Catherine Jinks, Pip ...

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$147 – $295

Open invitation: Tara Moss to launch the Monash University Crime Fiction Project

Monash University Learning and Teaching Building, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton, Vic, Australia

Everyone is welcome at the launch of  the Monash University Crime Fiction Project by  bestselling author, Tara Moss. Tara will be in conversation with Dr Barbara Pezzotti reading from and discussing her latest novel Dead Man Switch (in bookshops on 21 October) which features World War II Sydney PI Billie Walker. Monash University, Clayton Campus, Learning and ...

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Free

Terror Australis Readers & Writers Festival – 31 October- 5 November

Terror Australis Readers & Writers Festival, 31 October- 5 November, is a new Tasmanian literary festival inspired by Agatha Christie. The inaugural theme is Murder She Wrote. The festival takes place in the beautiful Huon Valley, just outside of Hobart. It’s a four-day book spree of deadly Masterclasses, grave Workshops and incisive literary discussions. It ...

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$175 – $530

Sisters@GenreCon Brisbane

Cultural Centre Stanley Place,, South Brisbane, Qld, Australia

GenreCon 2019 is destined to be the best yet, featuring a smorgasbord of leading names in Australian and international genre fiction. It is a spectacular line up of panels, workshops and special events, where you can join over 200 writers, editors, agents and publishers for three days of celebrating genre. It features a number of ...

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$399 – $699

PPCG fundraiser movie: Knives Out @ Classic Cinema Elsternwick (Melbourne)

Classic Cinema 9 Gordon St,, Elsternwick, Vic, Australia

Thursday 28 November, 6.30 pm Fundraiser movie night for Port Phillip Community Group screening of an Agatha Christie inspired murder mystery with a stellar cast including Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette,  and Don Johnson. Knives Out has already received great reviews. See trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGqiHJTsRkQ Tix: $30, $25 .For tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/BGIYI  

$25 – $30

Judith Rodriguez Scholarship – applications open 7 February

The Judith Rodriguez Scholarship worth $8000 is being offered by Graduate Women Victoria this year.  The scholarship will be awarded to a student of poetry, literature or visual arts undertaking a PhD or doctoral degree course at a Victorian University. Judith, a leading poet, was a fixture at Sisters in Crime Melbourne events over the ...

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