Featuring an impressive line-up of leading names in Australian and international genre fiction across a spectacular weekend of panels, workshops, and special events, GenreCon's 2022’s conference is dedicated to you - The Storyteller.
A heavily pregnant police detective is the star of Banjo Prize-winner (and Sisters in Crime member) Dinuka McKenzie’s stunning first book, The Torrent. This must be a first! Hear Dinuka talk about her book with podcaster Dani Vee.
FEBRUARY EVENT. What happens when crime leaves the mean streets of our big cities to stalk small-town Australia? Whether it is at the beach or in the bush, these small communities all harbour more than their fair share of deadly secrets and criminality. Three authors, Emma Viskic, Aoife Clifford, and Maryrose Cuskelly, will explore all this with award-winning short story writer, Jacqui Horwood.
The formal criminal justice system doesn’t always deliver for women, so what can happen when women decide to exact justice themselves? According to three debut crime authors, Jane Caro, Debra Oswald, and Nina D. Campbell, the results can be deadly.
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.
Catch Lynda La Plante (Prime Suspect, Tennison, and many others) talking with Sue Turnbull about her latest novel Vanished - BAD online on Thursday 31 March at 6 pm
Be good with BAD and raise money for the Lismore Library - and hear from top Australian crime writers.
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.
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.