Crime on the Couch@St Kilda Writers’ Festival

St Kilda Army and Navy Club - Heroes Lounge 88 Acland Street, St Kilda, Vic, Australia

Warm 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, Australia

Sisters 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

Event Launch: Rae Cairns, author of the Good Mother

Robinsons Bookshop The Glen Shop G063, The Glen Shopping Centre, 235 Springvale Rd, Glen Waverley, Vic, Australia

Everyone welcome - Sydney author (and Sisters' member) Rae Cairns will be 'in conversation' with Melbourne author (and Sisters' member) Lyn Yeowart about her debut novel, The Good Mother (HarperCollins) - 7pm Thursday 30 June - Robinsons The Glen.

Free

Shafted: Women in Peril

Rising Sun Hotel 2 Raglan St, South Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Authors Kimberley Starr, Margaret Hickey and Vikki Petraitis will examine why and how women are too often shafted with Moraig Kisler, Sisters in Crime’s review editor. It's a live event, back at the Rising Sun in South Melbourne. Hooray!

Sisters in Crime in the Library: Science Week

St Kilda Library 150 Carlisle Street, St Kilda, Vic, Australia

In 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, Australia

Some 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

BOOKED OUT! 22nd Davitt Awards Presentation

Rising Sun Hotel 2 Raglan St, South Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Frock up (or suit up) and join us for an à la carte dinner as Louise Milligan presents Sisters in Crime’s annual Davitt Awards - 6 for 6.30 pm, Saturday 27 August, Rising Sun Hotel, South Melbourne. She'll be talking to Jacqui Horwood before presenting the awards.

$35

Too close for comfort? The art of the domestic thriller

Sandringham Library 2 Waltham Street, Sandringham, VIC, Australia

Sisters 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

Sisters in Crime NSW presents: Mothers – how far will they go?

Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road,, Glebe, NSW, Australia

Join award-winning journalist and outspoken social commentator, Jane Caro, and Ned Kelly nominated debut author, Rae Cairns, in conversation with best-selling author, Pamela Hart, at Sisters in Crime NSW's first ‘real live’ event in 2022. This is your opportunity to engage in the discussion of Jane’s new psychological crime drama, The Mother, and Rae’s recently released high-paced crime novel, The Good Mother.

$12