Literary Speed Dating – Australian Society of Authors
A unique three-minute opportunity to pitch your completed manuscript to Australian publishers and agents via Zoom.
$27.50
Loading view.
Affiliated Events
Eastwood-Hills Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary CompetITion 2022
A number of awards open with the Eastwood-Hills FAW Literary Competition 2022. Entries close 15 May.
$8
Crime on the Couch@St Kilda Writers’ Festival
St Kilda Army and Navy Club - Heroes Lounge 88 Acland Street, St Kilda, Vic, AustraliaWarm up for the DicksVs Dames Debate at 5pm with relaxed one-on-one author talks with Crime on the Couch, pesented by Sisters in Crime. Great fun and you get to ask questions.
$15 – $20
Dicks Vs Dames: Sisters in Crime@St Kilda Writers’ Festival
Heroes Lounge, St Kilda Army & Navy Club 88 Acland St,, St Kilda, Vic, AustraliaSisters in Crime Australia & the St Kilda Writers' Festival present the return of the Great Crime Writing Debate, Dicks vs Dames: “The female of the species is deadlier than the male”
$15 – $20
Entries now open for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize
Entries for the ARA Historical Novel Prize, the richest genre-based literary award in Australasia (worth $100,000), is now open.
The SD Harvey Short Crime Story Award Now open
SD Harvey Short Crime Story for fiction or non-fiction is now open, closing 1 July.
$50
Sisters in Crime in the Library: Science Week
St Kilda Library 150 Carlisle Street, St Kilda, Vic, AustraliaIn partnership with Sisters in Crime Australia and Port Phillip Libraries, aspiring author and trained forensic scientist Maggie Baron speaks with authors Kimberley Starr (The Map of Night ) and Sue Williams (Death at the Belvedere) about how science provides such fertile raw material for crime and mystery novels.
Free
Sisters in Crime Returns to Cobargo
Cobargo School of Arts Hall 18-20 Bermagui Rd, Cobargo, NSW, AustraliaSome of Australia’s most popular female crime writers will converge on the Bega Valley on Saturday 27 August for the Sisters in Crime writers’ festival. The line-up includes Candice Fox, Vikki Petraitis, Fleur Ferris, Ilsa Evans, Kay Schubach, Caroline de Costa, and Dorothy Johnston.
$40 – $60
Too close for comfort? The art of the domestic thriller
Sandringham Library 2 Waltham Street, Sandringham, VIC, AustraliaSisters in Crime has put together some killer library events in partnership with Bayside Library Services for September. Two top Bayside authors, Sally Hepworth and Anna George, discuss how they dig deep to expose the drama, disputes, and violence that can rip family relations and home life apart.
Free
BAD Sydney Crime Writers’ Festival 2022
State Library of NSW 1 Shakespeare Pl,, Sydney, NSW, Australia8-10 September, Sate Library of NSW. Over 65 speakers, writing workshops, walking tours, and evening events. Sisters in Crime members appearing include Sulari Gentill, Candice Fox, Nina D Campbell, Lynn McFarlane, Vikki Petraitis, Veronica Lando, Petronella McGovern, Rae Cairns, Margaret Hickey, Pamela Hart, Tanya Bretherton, Suzanne Leal, Shelley Burr, Sally Bothroyd, Kayte Nunn, Sue Williams, and Sue Turnbull.
$175