2022 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction Now Open
Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction with the theme AFTERMATH now open. Prizes $1000, $500 and $250. Closes Friday 15 April.
$10
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Having the Crime of Our Lives: Sisters 30th Birthday Party!
Victorian Pride Centre Theatrette 79-81 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, Vic, AustraliaBring 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, AustraliaThe 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
View Online: Lynda La Plante
What an entertainer! Lynda La Plante, creator of Prime Suspect, over 40 novels and numerous television productions, talked about her stellar career and her latest book, Vanished, with Sisters in Crime’s Jacqui Horwood on 27 April. Free to view.
$10
Open Invitation: Event Launch of Brunswick Street Blues
Masonic Hall 9 Willis St.,, Yarraville, VIC, AustraliaEveryone is welcome to join Sisters in Crime NT member, Sally Bothroyd, as she talks to Carmel Shute about her comic debut novel, Brunswick Street Blues, winner of the inaugural ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize.
Free
Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award now taking submissions
A Williamstown Literary Festival opportunity - entries for Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award on a disability theme close on 29 April.
$15
The 2022 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize Now Open
Australian Book Review welcomes entries to the 2022 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for original short stories of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject and in any style. $12,500 up grabs.
$15 – $25
Literary Speed Dating – Australian Society of Authors
A unique three-minute opportunity to pitch your completed manuscript to Australian publishers and agents via Zoom.
$27.50
Open Invitation – Launch of J.P. Powell’s Deception Bay
Avid Bookstore 193 Boundary Road, West End, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaYou're all invited to the launch of Deception Bay, the second book in J.P. Powell's Brisbane wartime saga. Friday 13 May, 6.30pm at the Avid Bookstore, 193 Boundary Road,
West End, Brisbane or by Zoom.
Free
Eastwood-Hills Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary CompetITion 2022
A number of awards open with the Eastwood-Hills FAW Literary Competition 2022. Entries close 15 May.
$8