Affiliated Events

Writers' Weekend in idyllic setting with workshops and forums with experienced writers and time and space for for individual writing.

Featuring an impressive line-up of leading names in Australian and international genre fiction across a spectacular weekend of panels, workshops, and special events, GenreCon's 2022’s conference is dedicated to you - The Storyteller.

The Neddies are open!

Catch Lynda La Plante (Prime Suspect, Tennison, and many others) talking with Sue Turnbull about her latest novel Vanished - BAD online on Thursday 31 March at 6 pm

Be good with BAD and raise money for the Lismore Library - and hear from top Australian crime writers.

Now open, thanks to the Williamstown Literary Festival: the Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize ($500), Poetry Prize ($500), and The Young Adas ($250), named after one of Australia’s finest colonial writers.

Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction with the theme AFTERMATH now open. Prizes $1000, $500 and $250. Closes Friday 15 April.

The National Trust, in collaboration with Sisters in Crime, celebrates women crime writers and fictional crime fighters in its Summer of Mystery literary crime exhibition in Geelong.

A Williamstown Literary Festival opportunity - entries for Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award on a disability theme close on 29 April.

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.