Anthology Magazine Short Story Competition (International)

Writers of short fiction are invited to enter the Anthology Magazine Short Story Competition.  Established to recognise and encourage creative writing and provide a platform for publication, it is open to original and previously unpublished short stories in the English language by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. Stories submitted must be on the ...

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€10 – €15

POSTPONED. The past is never dead: Kingston Libraries mystery and mayhem month.

POSTPONED DUE TO COVID. STAND BY FOR A NEW DATE! Hauntingly, events of the past can often infiltrate the here-and-now with fatal consequences. Kingston Libraries and Sisters in Crime present newly-minted Melbourne crime novelists Amy Suiter Clarke, Suzanne Frankham and Ruth McIvor as they talk to award-winning author Leigh Redhead about such events that refuse ...

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Free

Online event: Sisters in Crime NSW investigate – Nina Young and Tanya Bretherton – True Crime, what is it, why write it, why read it?

Journalist and daughter Nina and her mother Denise Young courageously relate their very personal journeys in their dual memoir My Father the Murderer (Penguin), while in The Husband Poisoner (Hachette), award winning true crime researcher and author Tanya Bretherton, investigates a post World War II crime wave of wives using rat poison to kill their husbands, and others. Both of of these true stories of crime revolve around family.

$10.00

Debra Oswald to present 21st Davitt Awards

Rising Sun Hotel 2 Raglan St, South Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Frock (or suit) up and join us for an à la carte dinner as we present Sisters in Crime’s annual Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women published in 2020. Proudly supported by Swinburne University of Technology, Department of Media and Communication   This year, our guest is Debra Oswald, award-winning playwright, screenwriter ...

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$15 – $30

BAD Sydney Crime Writers September International Event

Join the BAD Sydney Crime Writers September International Festival at 6 pm on Wednesdays in September for its short and very sweet festival with four of the best international women crime writers. Paula Hawkins, speaking to Suzanne Leal (8 September); Val McDermid, speaking to Sue Turnbull (15 September); Karin Slaughter, speaking to Andy Muir (22 September); and Ann Cleeves, speaking ...

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$10

Digging Up Dirt: Pamela Hart dishes it Up

NSW ONLINE EVENT: Join Pamela Hart and Whitney Fitzsimmons as they discuss murder, Sydney’s property market and the merits of fruit cake and a cup of tea.

$10

SA Chapter: The Crime Short Story

Caledonian Hotel (Barton Room) 215 O'Connell St,, North Adelaide, SA, Australia

Authors Kristin Murdock and Dorothy Shorne discuss what makes a compelling crime short story.

$18 – $25

Cop This!

Online

ONLINE EVENT. Former Victorian Assistant Police Commissioner Sandra Nicholson will interrogate a panel of writers of police procedurals: Caroline de Costa, Suzanne Frankham and Margaret Hickey.

$10.00

Mysterious pasts, haunting presents

ONLINE EVENT. Mysterious pasts, haunting presents: new novels by best selling authors Tea Cooper and Kayte Nunn.

Free