BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival

State Library of New South Wales Macquarie St,, Sydney, NSW, Australia

The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival program is here and bookings are live! Get ready to enjoy yourself with your favourite crime fiction, true crime and social justice writers, as well as some unusual suspects at the State Library of New South Wales from Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 December.

$12.50 – $30

The Sisters in Crime NSW ‘Kill Covid’ Christmas Party

Women’s Club, 179 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, N, Australia

Make up for lost time crime with the NSW Chapter of Sisters in Crime - Thursday 9 December, 5 for 5.30 (to 7.30 pm): quiz, speed crime, mystery gifts, raffle, wine, food, and good criminal company.

Booked out: Summer Writing Retreat

The Hermitage 843 Old South Road, Mittagong, NSW, Australia

Writers' Weekend in idyllic setting with workshops and forums with experienced writers and time and space for for individual writing.

Who Sleuthed it? Crime@Preston Library

Preston Library 266 Gower St, Preston, Vic, Australia

Free event at Preston Library - authors Fin J. Ross, Kat Clay & Tor Roxburgh in conversation with Lindy Cameron about animals who help solve crimes - on the page...

Free

GenreCon 2022

Featuring an impressive line-up of leading names in Australian and international genre fiction across a spectacular weekend of panels, workshops, and special events, GenreCon's 2022’s conference is dedicated to you - The Storyteller.

$99 – $359

BAD Online with Dinuka MCKenzie

A heavily pregnant police detective is the star of Banjo Prize-winner (and Sisters in Crime member) Dinuka McKenzie’s stunning first book, The Torrent. This must be a first! Hear Dinuka talk about her book with podcaster Dani Vee.

$10

Small Towns, Big Crimes. Now online

FEBRUARY EVENT. What happens when crime leaves the mean streets of our big cities to stalk small-town Australia? Whether it is at the beach or in the bush, these small communities all harbour more than their fair share of deadly secrets and criminality. Three authors, Emma Viskic, Aoife Clifford, and Maryrose Cuskelly, will explore all this with award-winning short story writer, Jacqui Horwood.

$10

View Online: Seizing Justice

The formal criminal justice system doesn’t always deliver for women, so what can happen when women decide to exact justice themselves? According to three debut crime authors, Jane Caro, Debra Oswald, and Nina D. Campbell, the results can be deadly.

Open Invitation: Event Launch – The Cane

Readings Emporium Emporium Melbourne, Shop 1-016/287 Lonsdale St, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Sisters in Crime member, Philomena Horsley, will be in conversation with fellow member, Maryrose Cuskelly, to launch Maryrose's debut novel, The Cane (Allen & Unwin) - 6.30pm Thursday 17 March at Readings new shop in The Emporium Melbourne.

Free