The Lane Cove Literary Awards 2019 are now open and entries will be accepted until Monday 26 August 2019. Prizes will be awarded in the following categories: Short Story Prize - $2,000 Travel Story Prize - $1,500 Poetry Prize - $1,500 The following additional prizes may be awarded: The Burns Bay Bookery Resident Prize - $500 Len ...
Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Supporting new writing talent across Poetry and Short Fiction, the Creative Writing Award is hosted by the international art and culture publication Aesthetica Magazine, and presents a fantastic chance for writers to further their involvement in the literary world. Both established and emerging writers are encouraged to enter, and works previously ...
Sisters in Crime authors Caroline de Costa and M J Tjia will be speaking on a Brisbane Writers Festival panel, together with Meera Atkison, on Saturday 7 September, 1pm - Crime fiction & #metoo Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland https://bwf.org.au/2019/brisbane-writers-festival/crime-fiction-and-hashmetoo Also speaking at the festival are crime writers Chole Hooper, Lili Wilkison, Ginger Gorman, ...
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival just got a whole lot badder this year. It has events with Val McDermid, Candice Fox, Sue Turnbull, Sulari Gentill, Emily Maguire, Aoife Clifford, Catherine du Peloux Menagé, Suzie Miller, Bri Lee, Hilary Bonney, Nicole Abadee, Susan Hurley, Katherine Kovacic, Felicity McLean, Caroline Overington, Suzanne Leal, Jacyln Moriarty, Nicola Moriarty,  Xanthé Mallett, Ava Benny-Morrison, ...
Val McDermid, a Sisters in Crime favourite, is participating in three panels on the closing day of the Melbourne Writers Festival. This year's theme is When We Talk About Love. Val is the author of 22 bestselling novels, which have been translated into 30 languages and sold over 10 million copies. She has won many awards ...
This exhibition presents ten stories about individual women’s lives in the past. All of the women could be described as ‘wayward’. Either intentionally, or through force of circumstance, they transgressed society’s rules in some way. Some prospered, but others paid dearly for their actions. The women and girls featured in this exhibition all lived in ...
After sell-out runs at 2018's Fringe and 2019's Comedy Festival, Murder Village reopens its gates for more improvised Agatha Christie mysteries. Attend Sisters in Crime's Domestic Noir event on Friday 27 September, and you could win one of three double-passes. Step into the world of a 1950s' English village where anyone could be dispatched at ...
The world's first true crime augmented reality (AR) mobile game True Crime Mysteries: Misadventure in Little Lon, is launching on Sunday 6 October as part of Melbourne International Games Week. Created by Victorian husband and wife team Andy Yong and Emma Ramsay from studio 10Tickles, it propels players through iconic locations in Melbourne's CBD to solve a historic mystery; ...