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April 2022
Summer of Mystery
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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »Open Invitation: Event Launch of Brunswick Street Blues
Everyone 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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »May 2022
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.
Find out more »Literary Speed Dating – Australian Society of Authors
A unique three-minute opportunity to pitch your completed manuscript to Australian publishers and agents via Zoom.
Find out more »Open Invitation – Launch of J.P. Powell’s Deception Bay
You'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.
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.
Find out more »Author Talk: Dervla McTiernan – Online and In Person
Not to be missed! Bestselling author Dervla McTiernan is over from Perth and will be talking about The Murder Rule, her first-ever standalone thriller at Melbourne's Point Cook Library, Friday 20 May, 12.30-.1.30pm
Find out more »Law Week: The Rights and Wrongs of Forensics
Sisters in Crime Australia is again proud to join forces with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University, to present its 16th Law Week event.
An expert panel – Soren Blau, Tracie Gould, and Liz Porter – will debate with chair Coroner Audrey Jamieson as to what makes forensic science work and what can sometimes make it go wrong.