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.
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.
A Williamstown Literary Festival opportunity - entries for Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award on a disability theme close on 29 April.
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.
A unique three-minute opportunity to pitch your completed manuscript to Australian publishers and agents via Zoom.
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.
A number of awards open with the Eastwood-Hills FAW Literary Competition 2022. Entries close 15 May.
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
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.
Warm up for the DicksVs Dames Debate at 5pm with relaxed one-on-one author talks with Crime on the Couch, pesented by Sisters in Crime. Great fun and you get to ask questions.
Sisters in Crime Australia & the St Kilda Writers' Festival present the return of the Great Crime Writing Debate, Dicks vs Dames: “The female of the species is deadlier than the male”