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Open invitation – Armidale launch of Caroline de Costa’s, Blood Sisters (Wild Dingo Press)

Readers Companion Armidale Mall -151 Beardy St, Armidale, NSW, Australia

Everyone is welcome to the launch of Blood Sisters, the third novel in the Cass Diamond FNQ series by Sisters in Crime Cairns member, Caroline de Costa. 5.30pm, Thursday 2 May, Readers Companion, Armidale Mall, 151 Beardy Street, Armidale NSW Blood Sisters explores sex trafficking and abortion, teenage emotions and adult mischief, in a story as densely branched as the ...

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Open invitation to the launch of Carmel Reilly’s novel, Life Before

Readings Hawthorn 701 Glenferrie Rd, Hawtthorn, VIC, Australia

Everyone is  invited to celebrate the publication of Life Before, the debut adult crime novel of Sisters in Crime member, Carmel Reilly. Author (and Sisters in  Crime member). Ann Turner, will launch the book: Thursday 9 May, 6.30pm  - Readings Hawthorn,  701 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn. Life Before is a family drama with a touch of crime ...

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Law on the Small Screen – Victoria Law Foundation Podcast

Deakin Downtown Level 12, Tower 2, 727 Collins St, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

True crime, murder mysteries, police procedurals and sexy stories about the morally dubious – our TV screens and Netflix queues are packed with shows about lawyers, coppers and the law. The law has it all: colourful characters, extreme behaviours, webs of intrigue and dire consequences. Perfect tele fodder, but does it do the reputation of ...

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Law Week event # stalking # trolling # cyberbullying with image of computer mouse and Victoria Law Foundation

Stalking, trolling and cyberbullying

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

Sisters in Crime is again proud to join forces with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University, to present its 13th Law Week event, kindly sponsored by Victoria Law Foundation. Ginger Gorman, Emma A Jane, and Rachel Cassidy talk to The Age journalist Wendy Tuohy about the newish crime of cyberhate and the not-so-new crime ...

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$12 – $22

CANCELLED Brisbane Chapter Meeting – Writing a Good Synopsis!

Brisbane Square Library 266 George St, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

Writing a Good Synopsis RSVP is essential please as we may not have the numbers due to election day. sistersincrimeqld@gmail.com Date: Saturday 18 May 2019 Time: 10.30am to 1pm Location: The Community Meeting Room, Brisbane Square Library, 266 George St, Brisbane City. The meeting room is on the ground floor. As you enter, walk towards ...

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Brimbank Libraries -Writing workshops with author Vikki Petraitis Thursday 23 & 30 May

Keilor Community Hub 704B Old Calder Highway, Keilor, Vic, Australia

Writing workshops with author Vikki Petraitis Memoir Writing Learn how to write the stories of family members. Includes: • Plotting • Developing themes • Using writing techniques to help improve your written expression Keilor Community Hub: Thursday 23 May, 5:30-7:30pm 704B Old Calder Highway, Keilor VIC 3036 Book Here Novel Writing Suitable for both beginning writers ...

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Open Invitation: Melbourne launch of The Secret Art of Poisoning: The True Crimes of Martha Needle, the Richmond Poisoner

Readings St Kilda 112 Acland Street, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

Everyone is welcome at the event launch The Secret Art of Poisoning: The True Crimes of Martha Needle, the Richmond Poisoner by Adelaide Sisters in Crime member, Dr Samantha Battams. Dr Battams will be in conversation with Dr Lucy Sussex, long-time  Sisters in Crime member,  author, and literary historian.  Lucy's historical works include Women Writers ...

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Entries are open for The Banjo Prize 2019 – close 24 May

HarperCollins Publishers Australia is delighted to announce that entries are  open for the 2019 Banjo Prize. HarperCollins launched The Banjo Prize in 2018 in a quest to find Australia’s next great storyteller. The inaugural recipient is Tim Slee, whose debut novel Taking Tom Murray Home will be published by HarperCollins in July 2019. The Banjo ...

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Susan Hurley@Grumpy Swimmer May Book Club

The Grumpy Swimmer 110 Ormond Road, Elwood, Vic, Australia

Sisters in Crime member, Susan Hurley, will join the Grumpy Swimmer May Book Club to talk about her debut novel, Eight Lives. A brilliant young doctor is dead … and someone has to take the blame. Eight Lives is a scientific thriller: Former refugee David Tran becomes the Golden Boy of Australian medical research and invents ...

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Mystery in the Library @The Athenaeum

Melbourne Athenaeum Library First Floor, 188 Collins St, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

The Ngaio Marsh Awards, in association with the historic Melbourne Athenaeum Library and Sisters in Crime, present three talented storytellers and criminal minds who call Melbourne home. As crime and thriller writing has evolved from puzzle-like mysteries to novels delving deeply into people and places, it has continued to be the world’s most popular form of ...

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