From deep inside legendary bushranger territory... The New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing is a national award for unpublished short-form crime writing. All genres of crime writing are eligible, from hard-boiled to comic, paranormal to rural, noir to cosy. Entries welcome from anywhere in Australia and in 2017 we are accepting digital files! The ...
This celebration of the historical fiction genre will showcase over 60 speakers discussing inspiration, writing craft, research, publishing pathways and personal histories. Featured speakers include Sisters in Crime members Kerry Greenwood, Sophie Masson, and Sulari Gentill, plus 'brother-in-law' Robert Gott, Kate Forsyth, Deborah Challinor, Juliet Marillier, Arnold Zable, Anne Gracie and Lucy Treloar. Opening night ...
Sandi Wallace would love to see you at Bayswater Library on Friday 15 September at 2.00pm to chat about her latest release, Dead Again, writing and books. And don’t be shy – the audience is encouraged to get involved with questions! The second instalment in the Georgie Harvey and John Franklin series, Dead Again, was ...
Authors Sulari Gentill, Megan Goldin and Carolyn Morwood debate unreliable narrators, the blurring of truth and fiction, and much much more with Robyn Walton. Crossing the Lines (Pantera Press), Sulari Gentill’s new stand-alone murder mystery, explores what happens when the imagined becomes better than reality. Madeleine d’Leon is fixated on the story of Edward ‘Ned’ ...
Rural crime writers (and Sisters in Crime members) Sue Williams and Sandi Wallace are among a cast of ten authors talking about their books and writing at this year’s Coal Creek Literary Festival. At 11.30-12.15pm, Sue and Sandi will be chatting about their latest releases—the second books in their respective series—and penning crime stories. Sandi ...
Join Jane Harper, who won two Davitts (Best Adult Novel and Readers' Choice) for THE DRY, in conversation with crime author Leigh Redhead* about Jane’s new novel FORCE OF NATURE. Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along the muddy track. Only four come out the other side. The hike through the ...
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Bouchercon is the annual world mystery convention in North America where every year readers, writers, publishers, editors, agents, booksellers and other lovers of crime fiction gather for a 4-day weekend of education, entertainment, and fun! Guests of Honour | Bouchercon 2017 Guests of Honour Canadian Guest of Honour: Louise Penny Louise Penny didn’t begin her writing career ...
You are all invited to the launch of Dark Matters:A Novel (Spinifex Press) by Susan Hawthorne. Launcher: Marion Campbell How do we pass on stories hidden by shame and resistance to shame? Collected Works, 1/37 Swanston Street, Melbourne 6 for 6.30pm Wednesday 18 October
You are all invited to the Launch of Little Secrets by Anna Snoekstra's second novel. Award-winning crime novelist Emma Viskic (Ressurection Bay, When Fire Came Down) will be launching Anna Snoekstra’s second novel ‘Little Secrets’. Come for stories, performances, book signing and music. Local musicians will be performing songs featured within the pages of Little ...