National
Tuesday 18 March, 10:00 am-Tuesday 10 June, 5:00 pm: Writers Victoria, Short Story Online Feedback Clinic with Rashida Murphy. Submission Deadlines: Pieces of up to 1500 words due Tuesdays 18 March, 15 April, 13 May, 10 June. Member: $ 240.00; Non-Member: $285.00; Concession: $215.00. Bookings here.
New South Wales
Monday 7 April, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm: Join crime fans in celebrating the release of Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar’s Regency crime novel, Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective Victorian-based Sisters in Crime. They will be in conversation with Sydney Sister, Pamela Hart. Event & book, $40; book only $5. Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown. Book here.
Queensland
Thursday 27 February, 6 pm for a 6.30 pm start. Join us for the launch of After the Fall by Melbourne author, Kirsten Alexander. Fleeing Melbourne for the village of Hollydale in the Yorkshire Dales had felt right for Giselle but when a bomb explodes on the one road that leads to her cottage, she realises that her Hollydale life is larger and more complicated than she’d understood. Avid Reader, 193 Boundary Road, West End. Free but please book.
Friday 7 March, 6.00 pm for 6.30 pm start: Join crime fans for the launch of Joanna Jenkins’ new book The Bluff who will be in conversation with Ben Hobson. From the bestselling author of How to Kill a Client comes a page-turning rural thriller of loyalties and lies, murder and greed. $45 book and event; $15 event only. Avid Reader, 193 Boundary Road, West End. Book here.
Tuesday 18 March, 6 pm for 6.30 pm. Join crime fans for the Brisbane exclusive launch of Signs of Damage. Diana Reid will be joined in conversation by Sisters in Crime award-winning author, Mirandi Riwoe. It starts whenhe Kelly family’s idyllic holiday in the south of France is disturbed when Cass, a thirteen-year-old girl, goes missing. She’s discovered several hours later with no visible signs of injury. Sixteen years later, the present and the past start to collide… $45 book and event; $15 event only.The Loft, 100 Boundary St., West End (above Archive Beer Boutique). Book here.
Thursday 20 March, 6 pm for 6.30 pm: Hear from award-winning investigative journalist and author Jess Hill in conversation with Kathleen Noonan re her Quarterly Essay, On Stopping Family Violence. It will raise money for Second Chance Program. The Loft, 100 Boundary St., West End (above Archive Beer Boutique). Book here.
Friday 21 March, 5.30 pm. Launch of One Free Woman by Toowoomba Sisters in Crime author Jane Smith at the ‘Connections’ Australasian conference ‘Meet & Greet Event’. One Free Woman tells the true story of Hannah Rigby, the only female convict to remain in Moreton Bay after the penal settlement’s closure—a woman who notoriously endured three sentences of transportation, including two at one of the harshest establishments in the country. One Free Woman uncovers new details and celebrates Hannah Rigby, a woman with a fierce spirit for life. Brisbane Technology Park, 7 Clunies Ross Court, Eight Mile Plains. The event is for conference delegates only. Register for the conference here.
Friday 21 March, 6 pm for 6.30 pm. Melbourne crime writer Mandy Beaumont will be in conversation with Matthew Condon about her latest book The Thrill of It. It is inspired and informed by the real-life brutal slayings of six older women in Sydney’s Northshore between 1989 and 1990 by John Wayne Glover, also known as The Granny Killer. It is rumoured that back in 1977, Glover also killed the successful and well-known wallpaper designer, artist, clothing designer, solo traveller and socialite Florence Broadhurst, in her studio in Paddington. Avid Reader, 193 Boundary Road, West End. $15.00 Book + Ticket Deal $42.99. Book here.
Tuesday 25 March, 6 pm for 6.30 pm: Join Avid Reader for the 2025 Penguin Noir showcase! The panel discussion will feature award-winning and bestselling crime authors Gareth & Louise Ward (The Bookshop Detectives), Amanda Hampson (The Tea Ladies), and Darcy Tindale (Burning Mountain and The Fall). $15.00. The Loft, 100 Boundary St., West End (above Archive Beer Boutique). Book here.
Saturday 29 March, 3 pm for 3.30 pm. Toowoomba Sisters in crime author, Jane Smith, will be in conversation about her new novel, One Free Woman, with Nike Sulway. Inspired by the true story of Hannah Rigby, a poor Liverpool seamstress, prisoner, and serial thief, who was exiled from her homeland and oppressed by poverty and rigid social norms. She was the only female convict to remain in Moreton Bay after the penal settlement’s closure—a woman who notoriously endured three sentences of transportation, including two at one of the harshest establishments in the country. Avid Reader, 193 Boundary Road, West End. Free but please book.
Tasmania
Thursday 27 February, 5.30 pm: Megan Brown will be in conversation with Lucy Frost about her book, co-authored with Lucy Sussex, Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-writer, and Her Criminal Son George (Black Inc). Fullers Bookshop, 131 Collins St., Hobart. Cost $10.00 including a glass of wine. Book here.
Victoria
Tuesday 25 February, 6 pm-8 pm: Lucy Sussex and Megan Brown will be in conversation with Dr Meg Tasker about their book, Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-writer, and Her Criminal Son George (Black Inc). Ballarat Mechanics Institute, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central. $10 includes light refreshment. Book online here or contact Rosemary on library@ballaratmi.org.au or phone (03) 5331 3042.
Thursday 27 February, 6.00 pm: Join us to celebrate the launch of Laura McCluskey’s The Wolf Tree, an eerie, atmospheric, and addictive crime novel set on an isolated island off the coast of Scotland. Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon St, Carlton. Free but please book here.
Wednesday 5 March, 12.15 pm: Sisters in Crime@Readings. Patricia Wolf, author of the DS Lucas Walker series, will be here from Berlin and she will be talking to Sisters in Crime author Janice Simpson, about her latest novel, Opal. A small mining community. A murderer at large. And a flood that has trapped them all. Readings St Kilda, 112 Acland Street. Free but please book here.
Wednesday 5 March, 6:00 pm: Join crime fans in the celebration of Readings’ own Fiona Hardy’s debut novel, Unbury the Dead, in conversation with award-winning Sisters in Crime author, Aoife Clifford. It’s a superbly fresh and pacey high-stakes drama with two irresistible heroines. Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon St, Carlton. Free but please book here.
Thursday 6 March, 6.00 pm: Diana Reid in conversation with Readings events manager, Christine Gordon, re her new novel, Signs of Damage, a gripping tale of unravelling memories and moral ambiguities. Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon St, Carlton. Free but please book here.
Thursday 13 March, 6.00 pm: Laura McCluskey will be in conversation about her debut crime thriller The Wolf Tree with award-winning crime writer and Sisters in Crime member, Angela Savage. The book is set on a small island off the coast of Scotland, where an isolated community is grieving. It is rife with superstition and shrouded in secrets. But someone wants those secrets to stay buried. At any cost. Sandringham Library, 2 Waltham Street, Sandringham. Free but please book.
Thursday 13 March, 6.00 pm: Melbourne crime writer Mandy Beaumont will be in conversation with Mark Brandi about her latest book The Thrill of It. It is inspired and informed by the real-life brutal slayings of six older women in Sydney’s Northshore between 1989 and 1990 by John Wayne Glover, also known as The Granny Killer. Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon St, Carlton. Free but please book here.
Wednesday 19 March, 6 pm: Mandy Beaumont will discuss her masterful and explosive crime novel The Thrill of It (Hachette Australia) with Katherine Kovacic. Mandy is a Stella Prize longlisted and critically acclaimed author, whose novel explores the mind of a killer and the power of a granddaughter’s love. Katherine Kovacic is a crime author, art historian, former veterinarian and current dog lover. Her latest book Seven Sisters was shortlisted for a Ned Kelly Award. Brighton Library, 14 Wilson Street, Brighton. Free but please book.
Saturday 22 March, 10.00 am – 4:00 pm: Writers Victoria. Writing Short Stories: Micro and Flash Fiction with Clare Strahan. The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale St., Melbourne. Concession-$150.00; Member-$170.00; Non-member-$230.00. Book here.
Saturday 22 March, 11:30 am: Sisters in Crime@Clunes Booktown Festival. Cosy Crime: Plot, Puzzles and Characters Minus the Gore. What makes us turn away from blood and gore and crave small towns, mysterious bookshops, and seaside resorts with eccentric characters? Join Jacqui Horwood from Sisters in Crime as she discusses the joys of cozy mysteries with Amanda Hampson (The Tea Ladies series), Elizabeth Coleman (A Dance with Murder), and Aoife Clifford (It Takes a Town). The Tin Shed, 67 Fraser Street, Clunes. $25 Book here.
Monday 24 March, 6 pm-8 pm: Charlotte McConaghy will be in conversation about her new book, Wild Dark Shore (Penguin). Her previous novel won Sisters in Crime Davitt Award (Best Adult Novel). Ballarat Mechanics Institute, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central. $10 includes light refreshment. Book online here or contact Rosemary on library@ballaratmi.org.au or phone (03) 5331 3042.
Sunday 30 March, 12:30 pm: An Agent, an Author, and an Editor walk into a Library… Join crime fans for an engaging panel discussion about the journey from writing to publication, featuring Danielle Binks (literary agent, Jacinta di Mase Management), Laura Franks (editor, Affirm Press), Katherine Collette (debut author and podcaster, The First Time), and local emerging writer and Sister in Crime Averil Robertson (2024 Richell Prize finalist). West Footscray Library, 539 Barkly St, West Footscray. $25. Bookings here.
Thursday 3 April, 6:00 pm: Join crime fans in celebrating the launch of Amanda Hampson’s latest tea ladies mystery, The Deadly Dispute. It’s 1967 and Hazel’s new job at the docks quickly turns perilous when she stumbles into the criminal underworld that lurks beneath the surface. Book Launch: The Deadly Dispute. Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon St, Carlton. Free but please book here.
Thursday 3 April, 6:00 pm: Join crime fans in celebrating the launch of Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar’s Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective. Set two years after the events of Pride and Prejudice, Miss Caroline Bingley is staying at her brother’s country estate within an easy ride of Mr and Mrs Darcy’s home, Pemberley, and unexpectedly finds herself investigating a missing maid and a shocking, cold-blooded murder in London. Readings State Library Victoria, 285-321 Russell St, Melbourne. Free but please book here.
Tuesday 8 April, 6:00 pm: Jane Caro is in conversation about her new book Lyrebird that once again expertly illuminates the injustices perpetrated against women, particularly those who are marginalised, within a gripping, suspenseful thriller. Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon St, Carlton. Free, but please book here.
Thursday 10 April, 6.00 pm: Join crime fans to hear from Sydney Sisters member Ali Lowe, whose latest gripping, twisty, and suspenseful destination thriller, “The Private Island” is perfect for fans of Big Little Lies and White Lotus. Ali will be joined in conversation by Vanessa McCausland, former journalist and now internationally published author of five books, most recently The Last Illusion of Paige White. Brighton Library, 14 Wilson Street, Brighton. Free but please book here.
Monday 28 April, 6.30 pm: Sisters in Crime@Beaumaris Library. Shelley Burr will be discussing latest chilling thriller, Vanish, inspired by a real-life criminal case, with Sisters in Crime’s Jacqui Horwood. Beaumaris Library, 96 Reserve Road, Beaumaris Victoria. Free but please book here.
Tuesday 29 April, 6 pm-8 pm: NSW Sister in Crime Shelley Burr will be in conversation about her new book, Vanish (Hachette), third in the Lane Holland series. Ballarat Mechanics Institute, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central. $10 includes light refreshments. Book online here or contact Rosemary on library@ballaratmi.org.au or phone (03) 5331 3042.
Wednesday 30 April, 6.00 pm: Sisters in Crime@Ringwood Library. Crime and Mystery Unveiled with Vikki Petraitis. Join award-winning author and podcaster Vikki Petraitis as she interviews three of Melbourne’s top crime writers about their latest novels. Discover how crime and mystery unfold across different settings, from the Yorkshire Dales to Melbourne and the Victorian coast with Kirsten Alexander (After the Fall), Fiona Hardy (Unbury the Dead), and Christine Keighery (We’re Not Us Without You). Realm Public library, 179 Maroondah Hwy, Ringwood. Booking details to come.
Friday 23 May, 6.30 pm: 19th Annual Law Week event. Murder, She Investigates. Host Judge Betty King explores tall tales and true of homicide investigations with former Homicide Squad detective Narrelle Fraser, forensic pathologist Joanna Glengarry, and defence barrister Zoe Broughton. Booking details and venue.