Panel led by Suzanne Leal, author and a member of Sisters in Crime, Sydney. It includes Melbourne-based writers, Gideon Haigh and Paddy O’Reilly, and Tasmanian writer, Katherine Johnson. Free.
Rural Noir — crime fiction set everywhere from dry and dusty farming communities to sleepy seaside towns — has become a global publishing sensation. Breathing new life into this established, sometimes tired, genre are three Australian authors – Vikki Wakefield (To the River), Fiona Lowe (The Accident), and Christine Gregory (The Community). They’ll be thrashing through the issues with award-winning author, Margaret Hickey.
There are men who exploit women, men who beat women, men who abduct women, men who murder women . . . but there are also women – a lot of women – fighting back. Hosted by Janice Simpson, with Sherryl Clark (Woman, Missing), Jane Sullivan (Murder in Punch Lane), and Jess Kitching (Lucky Number 11).
FREE Join Alexandra Larach as she meets with debut author Lisa Kenway. We will be discussing her debut novel, All You Took from Me, and her journey to this point. Lisa Kenway is a writer and anaesthetist from the NSW Central Coast. Her debut novel was inspired by her longstanding fascination with memory and consciousness. An earlier version ...
Features three talented Queensland authors - Nicole Norris, Nicole Maddigan, and Tess Merlin - who take a deep dive into the real-life nightmares that inspired their blockbuster releases with Megan Norris, the Qld Sisters in Crime convenor and true crime author.
A night of crime conversation, drinks, and delicious food, and the chance to meet and mingle with fellow crime readers and writers in Brisbane. Author Kylie Kaden will interview bestselling novelist Petronella McGovern, and debut authors Lisa Kenway and Martine Kropkowski.
The global popularity of the Nordic Noir has transformed the production of television crime dramas in Australia. In Transnational TV Crime: From Scandinavia to the Outback, Sue Turnbull and Marion McCutcheon explain how. They'll be canvassing all the issues with Fiona Eagger, co-founder of Every Cloud Productions, and we will all get to watch snippets of some of our favourite programs.
