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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

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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UK author Adele Parks in-conversation with L.A. Larkin@Sutherland Library, Sydney

Sutherland Library 30/36 Belmont St.,, Sutherland , NSW, Australia

This is your chance to hear UK writer Adele Parks on a brief trip to Australia talk about her latest book Lies, Lies, Lies, the portrait of a disintegrating marriage with dark secrets at its heart. Adele Parks is a bestselling women’s fiction author from the UK. She has sold over 3.5 million copies of ...

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Free

2020 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

$12,500 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize is currently open! Closes 1 May 2020 Entries are now open for the 2020 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, worth a total of AU$12,500. The Jolley Prize is open to all short story writers writing in English. We seek original short stories of between 2,000 and 5,000 words. First ...

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$15 – $25

Writers’ Victoria: Maintaining Narrative Tension with JP Pomare

Wheeler Centre Performance Space, 176 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Maintaining Narrative Tension with JP Pomare Sunday 8 March, 10am-4pm, The Wheeler Centre, 176 Lt Lonsdale St., Melbourne It doesn’t matter where you are at whether this is your first step toward publishing a novel or you’ve been wrangling a troublesome manuscript for a decade, we will look closely at all the elements of fiction ...

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$135 – $215

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Write On with Jane Clifton@Acheron (Vic)

Marian Rennie Studio Gallery 132 Breakaway Rd, Acheron, Vic, Australia

On International Women’s Day, Saturday 8 March, crime writer (and Sisters in Crime member) Jane Clifton will present Write On! at Marian Rennie’s Studio Gallery in Acheron – just past Marysville and a bit before Alexandra. It’s a smidge over 2 hours from the Melbourne CBD. Workshoppers can come for the afternoon, organise a sleepover ...

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$130

Writers’ Victoria: Writing Ethical True Crime-Inspired Fiction and Crime Memoir with Ruth McIver

Wheeler Centre Performance Space, 176 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Writing Ethical True Crime-Inspired Fiction and Crime Memoir with Ruth McIver Sun 22 March, 10am-4pm, The Wheeler Centre, 176 Lt Lonsdale St., Melbourne While true crime is nothing new, over the past few years true-crime inspired fiction and true-crime memoirs such as Emma Cline’s ‘The Girls’ (2015) and Michelle McNamara’s ‘I’ll Be Gone in the ...

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$135 – $215