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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
Law Week logo 2018, 14th to 20th May

BOOKED OUT!! Crime’s other victims: The professionals who deal with Australia’s most horrific murders

Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University City Queen Street Campus, Lecture Theatre G02 295 Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

For its 12th Law Week event, Sisters in Crime Australia is joining forces with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University to explore the stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to keep society safe – police officers, homicide detectives, paramedics, doctors, forensic scientists, a trauma cleaner – and an author who writes about murders. ...

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$10 – $15

Write On! Writing Class with Jane Clifton

Meat Market Arts House 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Winter is coming!  Time to pack away the bathers and the sunblock and hunker down to write the great Australian novel, the essential family history, the most succinct and delicious short story Your pencil is sharpened, your laptop juiced, the notepad is open – but where to start? Already started but don’t know where to go ...

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$80

Open invitation to the launch of Accidental Death: when things may not be as they seem by Robin Bowles

Kelvin Club 14 Melbourne Place, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Please join us for the launch of Accidental Death: when things may not be as they seem by Robin Bowles. To be launched by Julian Burnside AO QC. This collection of stories centres on the idea of 'accidental death', and the upheaval caused in the lives of those who lose a loved one in this ...

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Free

True Crime at the Frankston RSL with Robin Bowles & Vikki Petraitis

Frankston RSL 183 Cranbourne Road, Frankston South, Vic, Australia

Join the Frankston RSL  for a night of True Crime with  Sisters in Crime members Robin Bowles & Vikki Petraitis Robin Bowles Robin Bowles has been writing crime since 1997, when she read the story of the death of Bonnie Doon housewife, Jennifer Tanner, and decided things didn’t add up. Robin writes about more than ...

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$10 – $15