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Emerging Writers Festival – Masterclass: Writing Crime

Wheeler Centre Performance Space, 176 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Masterclass: Writing Crime Looking to learn the foundational tools of crime writing, or to sharpen existing weapons already at your disposal? This masterclass will refine your essential plot, pacing, and genre-specific techniques, and teach you how to get paid for your crimes (the fictional variety)! We discuss the responsibilities of writers in representing criminalisation and violence, ...

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$75 – $90

Workshops- 14th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists

RMIT City Campus, Storey Hall (Building 16) Level 7, Green Brain Conference Rooms 1 & 2,, 336–348 Swanston St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A series of workshops on language, linguistics and the law on 1 July at RMIT University in Melbourne will precede the 14th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (runs to 5 July). These half-day workshops will be running separately to the main conference, and you can join these workshops without booking into, ...

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$75

S.D. Harvey Short Crime Story Award – opens 15 May; closes 31 July

S.D. HARVEY AWARD Kennedy Foundation hosts prestigious S.D. Harvey Short Crime Story Award Enter by clicking here The Kennedy Foundation is delighted to announce it will host the 10th  S.D. Harvey Short Crime Story Award in conjunction with the inaugural Kennedy Lecture dinner in September 2019. Sandra (Dawn) Harvey was an outstanding print journalist and television producer who ...

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$50

Melbourne Rare Book Week – Charlotte Jay

Library at the Dock 2nd floor, 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands, VIC, Australia

The Knife is Feminine: Discovering Charlotte Jay Hosted by Melbourne Library Service The inaugural winner of the  Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe award in 1953 was an Australian woman, Charlotte Jay, for Beat Not The Bones , a mystery set in Papua New Guinea. In 2019 who has heard of Charlotte Jay in this her ...

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Free

The Life and Crimes of Vikki Petraitis

The Rising Sun Hotel cnr Raglan Street and Eastern Road, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Vikki Petraitis, true crime writer and regular Dicks V Dames debater, will be interrogated about her 25 years of crime writing by Emily Webb, fellow true crime writer and co-presenter of the Australian True Crime Podcast. Vikki Petraitis took to writing true crime because, unlike crime fiction, it was so raw and it told the ...

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$15 – $20

Open invitation launch of J.M. Green’s, Shoot Through

The Night Heron 228 Nicholson St.,, Footscray, Vic, Australia

Scribe Publications is delighted to invite you to the launch of  J.M. Green's, Shoot Through,  to be launched by Imbi Neeme: 6.30pm Monday 22 July  - The Night Heron, 228 Nicholson St., Footscray Shoot Through is the 3rd in J.M. Green's Stella hardy series set in Melbourne's  West. Free but RSVP: danielle@scribepub.com.au      

Free

Brisbane – Ashley Kalagian Blunt in conversation re My Name is Revenge

Avid Reader 193 Boundary Street, West End, Qld, Australia

Hear Sydney Sister in Crime Ashley Kalagian Blunt in conversation with Ashley Hay re My Name is Revenge, her literary thriller novella set in 1980s’ Sydney and drawn from true events, including a series of international terrorist attacks. Wednesday, July 24, 6-8pm Ticket $10.00, Book (My Name Is Revenge) $24.99 Tickets available until 24 July ...

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$10

Winter Writers’ Retreat – Writers of the Far South Coast 26-28 July, Tathra

Kianinny Bush Cottages 246 Tathra Rd, Tathra, NSW, Australia

Now in its fifth year, it’s your turn to discover our Winter Writers Retreat. By the end of the weekend, with the help of our mentors, you’ll be inspired, motivated and maybe have that next chapter. The combined creativity gathered in this tranquil bush setting is nurtured by removing the daily grind of responsibilities while ...

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$299
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Deadbeat brothers and the trouble they cause

The Rising Sun Hotel cnr Raglan Street and Eastern Road, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Proving the adage ‘You can choose your friends, but not your family’, trouble befalls the protagonists in three new crime books. J M Green, Carmel Reilly and Sherryl Clark have created women who have to clean up messes created by their deadbeat brothers. They will confide all to fellow crime writer Toni Jordan: are the brothers ...

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$10 – $22

Sisters in Crime@Phillip Island Festival of Stories

Cowes Cultural Centre 91-97 Thompson Avenue, Cowes, Vic, Australia

Hear from a fabulous Sisters in Crime panel - Ellie Marney (compere), Anna Snoekstra and Olivia De Lesantis: 11-11.45am, Saturday 27 July Room 1, Cowes Cultural Centre,  91-97 Thompson Avenue, Cowes ELLIE MARNEY Ellie Marney is a teacher and a highly-awarded author of crime fiction for Young Adults.A long-term member of Sisters in Crime, she ...

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$20 – $55