Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

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 ...

Read more

Free

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 ...

Read more

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 ...

Read more

$15 – $25

Writers’ Victoria: Writing Ethical True Crime-Inspired Fiction and Crime Memoir with Ruth McIver

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

Writing Ethical True Crime-Inspired Fiction and Crime Memoir with Ruth McIver Sun 22 March, 10am-4pm, The Wheeler Centre, 176 Lt Lonsdale St., Melbourne While true crime is nothing new, over the past few years true-crime inspired fiction and true-crime memoirs such as Emma Cline’s ‘The Girls’ (2015) and Michelle McNamara’s ‘I’ll Be Gone in the ...

Read more

$135 – $215

POSTPONED TIL AUGUST: Natalie Conyer talks to the Jessie Street National Women’s Library, Sydney

Jessie Street National Women’s Library Customs House Library, 31 Alfred Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia

When South Africa moved from Apartheid to majority rule, locally produced crime fiction became extremely popular. Why was this? What does crime fiction have to say about the new South Africa, and how does it deal with real-life crime there? Sydney Sister in Crime Natalie Conyer will talk about why she chose to write about ...

Read more

$16 – $22

Gathering Dark with Candice Fox

The Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown, NSW, Australia

Enjoy a night of crime on Tuesday 31 March with BAD Sydney at the launch of Candice Fox’s new thriller Gathering Dark. We begin the night with our Great Trivia Slam (special book prizes for the winners). Then Candice Fox, one of Australia’s most acclaimed crime writers, will be speaking for the first time about ...

Read more

$20 – $22

POSTPONED: Deadly Worlds

Readings 112 Acland Street, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

L.A. Larkin & Natalie Conyer Double Book Launch at Readings St Kilda Sisters in Crime Australia, Clan Destine Press, and Readings announce a double-book event featuring two awesome crime/thriller writers - and their brand new books. Prey by L.A. Larkin and Present Tense by Natalie Conyer are both set in South Africa, and will take ...

Read more

Free

“Flawed Heroes” goes online

Sisters in Crime’s panel discussion event, Flawed Heroes, originally scheduled as a live show for 8pm Friday 3 April at South Melbourne’s Rising Sun Hotel, will now be Zoomed to the world. Authors Emma Viskic, Karina Kilmore and Natalie Conyer will talk to Jacqui Horwood about the flawed heroes of their crime novels as they ...

Read more

$10

$2600 in prize money – St Kilda Historical Society Short Story Competition

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the St Kilda Historical Society is holding a short story competition. You may write on any theme, in any genre and in any time period, providing that the story is inspired by or set in St Kilda.  There are two categories - open and junior. Open Section The winner of ...

Read more