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Past Imperfect: Delving into the swirl of history, murder and intrigue

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

Three debut authors – Dervla McTiernan, Sarah Schmidt and Katherine Kovacic – in conversation with Robyn Walton will discuss how their novels shine a light on unsolved crimes, both real and imagined. Dervla McTiernan’s novel, The Rúin (HarperCollins Australia), is set in Ireland. Detective Cormac Reilly is assigned to re-investigate a seemingly accidental overdose that happened twenty ...

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$10 – $17

Beyond The Whodunnit with Emily Maguire@NSW Writers Centre

NSW Writers Centre Garry Owen House, Callan Park, Balmain Rd, Rozelle, NSW, Australia

Join bestselling author Emily Maguire for her intensive one-day course Beyond the Whodunnit on Saturday 7 April, 10am-4pm. Crime is at the heart of many great novels regardless of where (or whether) that novel fits within the huge and diverse genre of crime fiction. In this workshop, we’ll look at how to create a believable world ...

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Shelves of Agatha Christie library books

Bookings open til 4pm Friday: ‘Body in the Library’ readings to launch the 25th Scarlet Stiletto Awards

Athenaeum Library Level 1, 188 Collins Street,, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

This year, the Scarlet Stiletto Awards offer more than $10,000 in prize money for the best crime or mystery short stories. Since 2012, the Melbourne Athenaeum Library has sponsored the ‘Body in the Library’ Award by offering a $1000 prize to the winner and $500 to the runner-up. This partnership has seen the number of ...

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$10 – $15

The Best of Times short story competition

The Best of Times short story competition - Autumn 2018 For humorous short stories (any theme) up to 2500 words. First prize: $300-$500 (depending on number of entries), second prize: $100. Third place, highly commended and commended certificates will be awarded too. Closes 30 April 2018. Entry fee is $10 per story. Competition website: www.bestoftimes.com.au

$10

Emma Viskic@The Clunes Booktown Festival

National Hotel Fraser Street,, Clunes, vic, Australia

Featured Author Talk The Clunes Booktown Festival is delighted to announce that its author talk with award-winning Australian crime writers Emma Viskic and Mark Brandi will have Australian sign language (Auslan) interpretation. You may recognise Emma Viskic's name from the critically acclaimed Caleb Zelic series, with Resurrection Bay (2015) which won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and ...

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Free

Crime in the Country@Clunes Booktown Festival

CLUNES FREE LENDING LIBRARY Templeton Street, Clunes, VIC, Australia

Sisters in Crime members Anna Snoekstra, Ellie Marney, and Emma Viskic, and 'brother-in-law' Mark Brandi are in conversation about crime  in the country. Presented by the Ballarat Courier. 2.30pm Saturday 5 May CLUNES FREE LENDING LIBRARY, Templeton Street, Clunes Bookings: http://www.clunesbooktown.com.au/the-festival/clunes-booktown-festival  

$10

Anna Snoekstra @the Clunes Booktown Festival

CLUNES FREE LENDING LIBRARY Templeton Street, Clunes, VIC, Australia

Author talk by Anna Snoekstra re her second crime novel, Little Secrets. Little Secrets (Harlequin) is a stand-alone thriller like her debut novel, Only Daughter, which has been optioned in the US by Universal Pictures. Little Secrets started out as a short story for the Scarlet Stiletto Awards a few years back, but kept growing and growing ...

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$10

Ellie Marney@the Clunes Booktown Festival

INTERNATIONAL STAGE Fraser Street, Clunes, VIC, Australia

Author talk - Ellie Marney on her latest crime novel, No Limits. Boozer, brawler, ladies’ man – nineteen-year-old Harris Derwent is not a good guy. Injured and unemployed, he’s about to find out what he’s really made of when he agrees to narc within a rural drug cartel… Eighteen-year-old Amita Blunt is the perfect police sergeant’s daughter ...

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Free

Jewish Noir@Melbourne Jewish Book Week

St Kilda Town Hall 99A Carlisle St.,, St Kilda, Vic, Australia

Jewish Noir: 3pm Sunday 6 May Venue: Gunuwarra Room, St Kilda Town Hall Carmel Shute from Sisters in Crime Australia speaks to three crime authors – Israel’s Dror Mishani, and Australia’s Nathan Besser and Megan Goldin, about what the crime genre has to say about contemporary society and the light it sheds on people, places and problems. Book Now >

$20

Eastwood/Hills Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary Competition 2018

Eastwood/Hills Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary Competition 2018 All categories Open Theme Category 1: Short Story Max 3,000 words. First Prize $250, Second Prize $100 Category 2: Poetry – Includes all forms of poetry except Bush Poetry (See separate Boree Log competition) Max 80 lines per poem. First Prize $200, Second Prize $75 Category 3: Alan Russell Award for Memoir Max 1,500 ...

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$7 – $25