Ready, Set, Pitch!

Sisters in Crime Queensland presents A free online seminar for writers Ready Set Pitch! with Allie Reynolds and January Gilchrist Join Sisters-in-Crime QLD for a free interactive online seminar to polish your pitch. Hear how thriller writers Allie (SHIVER & THE BAY) and January (THE FINAL CHAPTER) landed international book deals, and what they did to ...

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Free

Launch: Amanda Hampson’s the model murder

Perth: Sisters in Crime WA presents Amanda Hampson in conversation with Rachael Johns, to launch Amanda's new eagerly awaited book, The Model Murder. A Crime with Wine event, at The Red Room Leederville. Presented in conjunction with Books in the Brewery. Book here.

$10

20th Law Week event. A is for Arsenic, D is for Death Cap.

Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University, Queen Street Campus Heritage Courtyard Lecture Theatre, 295 Queen Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Exploring the many dimensions of poison as the ‘women’s weapon’ will be Chloe Hooper, co-author of The Mushroom Tapes; Linda Glowacki, toxicologist from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine & Angela Savage on Agatha Christie and poisons; and host Vikki Petraitis. Poison was historically considered the archetypal 'woman's weapon' as it required no special strength, only access and opportunity, things generally afforded women in their domestic role. Or is this an old, made-up sawhorse?

$10 – $20

Melbourne Rare Book Week: Digging for Dirt – Criminal inspiration from the archives

Prahran Mechanics Institute 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia

Sisters in Crime and the Prahran Mechanics Institute are partnering to present a special Melbourne Rare Book Week event , Digging for Dirt – Criminal inspiration from the archives. Tara Oldfield and Lucy Sussex will be discussing the critical role that archival research plays in creating historical crime writing, both fiction and non-fiction.

Free