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 - Ellie Marney on her latest crime novel, No Limits. Boozer, brawler, ladies’ man – nineteen-year-old Harris Derwent is not a good guy. Injured and unemployed, he’s about to find out what he’s really made of when he agrees to narc within a rural drug cartel… Eighteen-year-old Amita Blunt is the perfect police sergeant’s daughter ...
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 ...
Jewish Noir: 3pm Sunday 6 May Venue: Gunuwarra Room, St Kilda Town Hall Carmel Shute from Sisters in Crime Australia speaks to three crime authors – Israel’s Dror Mishani, and Australia’s Nathan Besser and Megan Goldin, about what the crime genre has to say about contemporary society and the light it sheds on people, places and problems. Book Now >
Eastwood/Hills Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary Competition 2018 All categories Open Theme Category 1: Short Story Max 3,000 words. First Prize $250, Second Prize $100 Category 2: Poetry – Includes all forms of poetry except Bush Poetry (See separate Boree Log competition) Max 80 lines per poem. First Prize $200, Second Prize $75 Category 3: Alan Russell Award for Memoir Max 1,500 ...
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. ...
Winter is coming! Time to pack away the bathers and the sunblock and hunker down to write the great Australian novel, the essential family history, the most succinct and delicious short story Your pencil is sharpened, your laptop juiced, the notepad is open – but where to start? Already started but don’t know where to go ...