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Wayward Women exhibition to 30 June 2020: Old Treasury Building, Melbourne

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

This exhibition presents ten stories about individual women’s lives in the past.  All of the women could be described as ‘wayward’.  Either intentionally, or through force of circumstance, they transgressed society’s rules in some way. Some prospered, but others paid dearly for their actions. The women and girls featured in this exhibition all lived in ...

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Judith Rodriguez Scholarship – applications open 7 February

The Judith Rodriguez Scholarship worth $8000 is being offered by Graduate Women Victoria this year.  The scholarship will be awarded to a student of poetry, literature or visual arts undertaking a PhD or doctoral degree course at a Victorian University. Judith, a leading poet, was a fixture at Sisters in Crime Melbourne events over the ...

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2020 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

$12,500 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize is currently open! Closes 1 May 2020 Entries are now open for the 2020 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, worth a total of AU$12,500. The Jolley Prize is open to all short story writers writing in English. We seek original short stories of between 2,000 and 5,000 words. First ...

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$15 – $25

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

THE SUN THEATRE 8 Ballarat St, Yarraville, Victoria, Australia

Join Sisters in Crime for a special screening of Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, the stand-alone action-adventure feature film that picks up the story from the end of the third television series of the acclaimed Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. In her debut cinematic adventure, detective-extraordinaire the Hon. Miss Phryne Fisher embarks on an exotic 1920s ...

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$25

Dervla McTiernan in conversation with Karina Kilmore@Readings Hawthorn

Readings Hawthorn 701 Glenferrie Rd, Hawtthorn, VIC, Australia

Readings Hawthorn is delighted to have bestselling and much-acclaimed crime writer Dervla McTiernan over from Perth to talk about her third Cormac Riley novel, The Good Turn. With police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl’s silence – three seemingly unconnected events that will prove to be linked ...

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Wendy Lewis in conversation@Better Read Than Dead (Newtown, Sydney)

Better Read Than Dead 265 King St.,, Newtown, NSW, Australia

Who is Richard Hauptmann? Why should he forgive us? And can a true crime writer write short stories? Find out at this free event for book lovers looking for something a little out-of-left-field. Wendy Lewis discusses her new short story collection Please Forgive Us, Richard Hauptmann with Ashley Kalagian Blunt! Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at ...

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Writers’ Victoria: Maintaining Narrative Tension with JP Pomare

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

Maintaining Narrative Tension with JP Pomare Sunday 8 March, 10am-4pm, The Wheeler Centre, 176 Lt Lonsdale St., Melbourne It doesn’t matter where you are at whether this is your first step toward publishing a novel or you’ve been wrangling a troublesome manuscript for a decade, we will look closely at all the elements of fiction ...

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$135 – $215

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Write On with Jane Clifton@Acheron (Vic)

Marian Rennie Studio Gallery 132 Breakaway Rd, Acheron, Vic, Australia

On International Women’s Day, Saturday 8 March, crime writer (and Sisters in Crime member) Jane Clifton will present Write On! at Marian Rennie’s Studio Gallery in Acheron – just past Marysville and a bit before Alexandra. It’s a smidge over 2 hours from the Melbourne CBD. Workshoppers can come for the afternoon, organise a sleepover ...

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$130

Karina Kilmore in conversation@Better Read Than Dead (Sydney)

Better Read Than Dead 265 King St.,, Newtown, NSW, Australia

When both Jane Harper and Christian White call a book compelling, that’s a good reason to pick it up. In Where the truth lies, investigative journalist with a troubled past, Chrissie O’Brien, becomes obsessed with finding out the truth about the apparently accidental death of a female dockworker she thinks was murder. This puts her ...

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POSTPONED: Karina Kilmore in conversation@Readings St Kilda (Vic)

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

Karina Kilmore, debut author and Sisters in Crime national co-convenor, will be interrogated by high profile true-crime writer Andrew Rule about her new thriller Where the Truth Lies. Join us for a gripping evening of all things crime. Where the Truth Lies, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and ...

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