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Bookings open til 4pm Friday: ‘Body in the Library’ readings to launch the 25th Scarlet Stiletto Awards

Athenaeum Library Level 1, 188 Collins Street,, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

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 ...

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$10 – $15

BOOKED OUT!! Crime’s other victims: The professionals who deal with Australia’s most horrific murders

Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University City Queen Street Campus, Lecture Theatre G02 295 Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

For its 12th Law Week event, Sisters in Crime Australia is joining forces with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University to explore the stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to keep society safe – police officers, homicide detectives, paramedics, doctors, forensic scientists, a trauma cleaner – and an author who writes about murders. ...

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$10 – $15

Open invitation to the launch of Accidental Death: when things may not be as they seem by Robin Bowles

Kelvin Club 14 Melbourne Place, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Please join us for the launch of Accidental Death: when things may not be as they seem by Robin Bowles. To be launched by Julian Burnside AO QC. This collection of stories centres on the idea of 'accidental death', and the upheaval caused in the lives of those who lose a loved one in this ...

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Free

True Crime at the Frankston RSL with Robin Bowles & Vikki Petraitis

Frankston RSL 183 Cranbourne Road, Frankston South, Vic, Australia

Join the Frankston RSL  for a night of True Crime with  Sisters in Crime members Robin Bowles & Vikki Petraitis Robin Bowles Robin Bowles has been writing crime since 1997, when she read the story of the death of Bonnie Doon housewife, Jennifer Tanner, and decided things didn’t add up. Robin writes about more than ...

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$10 – $15

Captivating Criminality 5: Crime Fiction: Insiders and Outsiders

Corsham Court, Bath Spa University,, Bath, United Kingdom

The Captivating Criminality Network is delighted to announce its fifth UK conference. Building upon and developing ideas and themes from the previous four successful conferences, Crime Fiction: Insiders and Outsiders, will examine the ways in which Crime Fiction as a genre is able to incorporate both traditional ideas and themes, as well as those from ...

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£10 – £20

18th Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women

The George Swinburne Building, 2nd floor 34 Wakefield Street,, Hawthorn, Vic, Australia

Proudly supported by Swinburne University of Technology, Department of Media and Communication and the Danish Arts Foundation Frock up and join us for champagne and canapés as we present Sisters in Crime’s annual Davitt Awards with our international guest, Danish author Sissel Jo-Gazan. Harlequin Australia has kindly donated 100 proof copies  of Anna Snoekstra's new ...

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$48

2018 NED KELLY AWARDS PRESENTATION

The Toff in Town 252 Swanston St,, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Join the Australian Crime Writers Association for a criminally good evening of storytelling, prizes and laughter at the annual Ned Kelly Awards. Hosted by Jane Clifton, the Ned Kelly Awards celebrates Australia’s finest crime writing with awards for the best Crime Fiction, First Crime Fiction, True Crime and the S.D Harvey Short Story Award. The ...

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Free

Sisters@BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival

Justice & Police Museum Albert St & Phillip St, Sydney, NSW, Australia

BAD is back and bigger than ever!!  Weekend of 1- 2 September, Opening night Friday 31 August 2018 with a nuner of Sisters in Crime including Sue Turnbull, Candice Fox, Anna Snoekstra,  Megan Goldin Justice & Police Museum Due to popular demand, BAD Sydney is back for a second year running with an exciting program. Click ...

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$16.07 – $21.17

True crime author Liz Porter @Dymocks Camberwell, First Tuesday Book Club

Barolo Trattoria Function Room 885 Burke Rd, Camberwell, VIC, Australia

Hear from 4 writers including true crime author (and Sisters in Crime member) Liz Porter:  Liz Porter is a journalist who began her career in Hong Kong and then worked in Sydney, London and Stuttgart before returning to her hometown of Melbourne, where she is now working as a freelance journalist. Liz does the occasional piece for ...

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$15

True Crime: Digging out the truth

Rising Sun Hotel 2 Raglan St, South Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Authors Rachael Brown, Kate Wild and Maryrose Cuskelly talk to Vikki Petraitis about how persistence and perspicacity pay off when it comes to investigating crime.   Last year, journalist Rachael Brown made headlines with her cold-case investigation into the murder of single mother Maria James at her Thornbury bookshop in 1980. Using this material, she ...

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$12 – $22