Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award now taking submissions
A Williamstown Literary Festival opportunity - entries for Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award on a disability theme close on 29 April.
$15
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The 2022 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize Now Open
Australian Book Review welcomes entries to the 2022 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for original short stories of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject and in any style. $12,500 up grabs.
$15 – $25
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
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