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

Sex, lies, and crime writing: live on Zoom

ONLINE EVENT. A criminal defence lawyer and a psychologist walk into a bar… Sisters In Crime NSW invite you to take a peek behind the curtain of criminal life with Sydney authors Siobhan Mullany (ex criminal barrister) and Ann Penhallurick (psychologist). Free or $10 donation.

Ada Cambridge Writing Prizes 2022 open for submissions

Now open, thanks to the Williamstown Literary Festival: the Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize ($500), Poetry Prize ($500), and The Young Adas ($250), named after one of Australia’s finest colonial writers.

$15

Launch of Lyn McFarlane’s, The Scarlet Cross

Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road,, Glebe, NSW, Australia

All welcome at the launch of The Scarlet Cross, Lyn McFarlane's thriller set in the emergency department of a Canadian hospital - 6 for 6.30pm, Friday 8 April, Gleebooks, Sydney.

Free

Having the Crime of Our Lives: Sisters 30th Birthday Party!

Victorian Pride Centre Theatrette 79-81 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Bring out the pearls for a fabulous night of felonious talk and food, to celebrate Sisters in Crime Australia's 30th birthday. Diary date: 23 April in St Kilda, Melbourne. Hear from Jane Clifton, Sue Turnbull, Carmel Shute, Emma Viskic, Angela Savage, Sulari Gentill, and Vikki Petraitis. Plus food and wine and singing. It's going to be amazing. See you there!

$40

Summer of Mystery

The Heights 140 Aphrasia Street, Newtown (Geelong), VIC, Australia

The National Trust, in collaboration with Sisters in Crime, celebrates women crime writers and fictional crime fighters in its Summer of Mystery literary crime exhibition in Geelong.

$5 – $45