Sisters in Crime Australia and the Port Phillip Library Service present … Sarah Krasnostein speaks to Ruth Wykes about Sandra Pankhurst who for 20 years has cleaned houses in which people have died – sometimes violently, sometimes through drugs and, very often, alone. Krasnostein’s debut book, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay ...
Special Event Offer Book in at the ASA member price and save $100 on the Red Dirt Week - Fight for Your Genre Day (Crime) in Sydney $175 inc GST (normally $275 inc GST for non-members) Special offer expires 5pm AEDT Monday 12 March 2018, so be quick! About the day: Monday 19th March 2018, 10am-5pm Suite C1.05 22-36 ...
Hazel Edwards, author of 200 books and most famously her classic children's book, There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake, has returned to crime with an adult murder mystery, Celebrant Sleuth The timing of her asexual celebrant sleuth book release, just happened to coincide with the changes in same sex marriage laws and the attention ...
Three debut authors – Dervla McTiernan, Sarah Schmidt and Katherine Kovacic – in conversation with Robyn Walton will discuss how their novels shine a light on unsolved crimes, both real and imagined. Dervla McTiernan’s novel, The Rúin (HarperCollins Australia), is set in Ireland. Detective Cormac Reilly is assigned to re-investigate a seemingly accidental overdose that happened twenty ...
Join bestselling author Emily Maguire for her intensive one-day course Beyond the Whodunnit on Saturday 7 April, 10am-4pm. Crime is at the heart of many great novels regardless of where (or whether) that novel fits within the huge and diverse genre of crime fiction. In this workshop, we’ll look at how to create a believable world ...
This year, the Scarlet Stiletto Awards offer more than $10,000 in prize money for the best crime or mystery short stories. Since 2012, the Melbourne Athenaeum Library has sponsored the ‘Body in the Library’ Award by offering a $1000 prize to the winner and $500 to the runner-up. This partnership has seen the number of ...
The Best of Times short story competition - Autumn 2018 For humorous short stories (any theme) up to 2500 words. First prize: $300-$500 (depending on number of entries), second prize: $100. Third place, highly commended and commended certificates will be awarded too. Closes 30 April 2018. Entry fee is $10 per story. Competition website: www.bestoftimes.com.au
Featured Author Talk The Clunes Booktown Festival is delighted to announce that its author talk with award-winning Australian crime writers Emma Viskic and Mark Brandi will have Australian sign language (Auslan) interpretation. You may recognise Emma Viskic's name from the critically acclaimed Caleb Zelic series, with Resurrection Bay (2015) which won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and ...
Sisters in Crime members Anna Snoekstra, Ellie Marney, and Emma Viskic, and 'brother-in-law' Mark Brandi are in conversation about crime in the country. Presented by the Ballarat Courier. 2.30pm Saturday 5 May CLUNES FREE LENDING LIBRARY, Templeton Street, Clunes Bookings: http://www.clunesbooktown.com.au/the-festival/clunes-booktown-festival
Author talk by Anna Snoekstra re her second crime novel, Little Secrets. Little Secrets (Harlequin) is a stand-alone thriller like her debut novel, Only Daughter, which has been optioned in the US by Universal Pictures. Little Secrets started out as a short story for the Scarlet Stiletto Awards a few years back, but kept growing and growing ...