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I’m excited to announce that my short story ‘The Teardrop Tattoos’, has been shortlisted for the 2011 Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Awards. The story is a change of pace for me. Unlike my novels, which are set in Thailand, … Continue reading
SheKilda all right
A couple of things struck me–fortunately neither a blunt object nor a stiletto–at the SheKilda Australian Women’s Crime Convention in Melbourne last weekend. So many women, including distinguished and established writers, talked about their fears and doubts when it came … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Festival, Sisters in Crime
Tagged Amanda Wrangles, Angela Savage, Carolyn Morwood, Davitt Awards 2011, Felicity Pulman, Judith Rodriguez, Katherine Howell, Kathryn Fox, Kerry Greenwood, Kylie Fox, LA Larkin, Leigh Redhead, Lindy Cameron, Malla Nunn, Margie Orford, Nicole Watson, PD Martin, PM Newton, SheKilda, Sisters in Crime Australia, Sulari Gentill, Tara Moss, women writers, work-life balance, working mother, YA Erskine
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Ned Kelly Awards 2011 Shortlist
I am thrilled to announce The Half-Child has made a shortlist of three for Best Fiction in this year’s Ned Kelly Awards. The Half-Child is in good company: I recently read Bereft, by Chris Womersley and I’m rapt to have my book … Continue reading
Book review: Bereft
I read Bereft, Chris Womersley’s second novel, on the strength of it being both short-listed for the 2011 Miles Franklin Award and nominated for the 2011 Ned Kelly Awards. Womersley’s first novel, The Low Road, won the Ned Kelly Award for … Continue reading
Posted in Books, crime fiction
Tagged Angela Savage, Bereft, book review, Chris Womersley, Miles Franklin Award 2011, Peter Temple, PM Newton
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Literati Festival de-brief, Part 2
My afternoon panel session at the Literati Festival on the Gold Coast was with LA Larkin and PM Newton (to use their publicist-approved monikers) on the topic ‘Deadlier than the Male’ – the female voice in crime writing. We’d planned … Continue reading
Posted in Angela Savage, Literary Festival
Tagged LA Larkin, Literati, Literati Writers Festival, PM Newton, women writers
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Literati Festival de-brief, Part 1
My fellow panellist Kate Holden used the word ‘nifty’ to describe the Literati Festival at which we both appeared last weekend on Queensland’s Gold Coast. Being the wonderful writer she is, Kate’s choice was word perfect. Literati was a neat 24 … Continue reading
Literati Festival program
I will be ‘among the big names‘ appearing as a guest of Literati – A feast of authors on the Gold Coast from 6-7 May 2011. The Gold Coast’s annual writers festival has a unique structure, starting Friday night 6 May with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Savage, Gold Coast, Kate Holden, Literati, Literati Writers Festival, PM Newton, Queensland
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My weekend of crime and Dengue Fever
I’d planned to devote a post to the fabulous panel From the Sydney of the past to the Thailand of today I shared with Sulari Gentill and PM (aka Pamela Mary) Newton for the Sisters in Crime last Friday night. But … Continue reading
From the Sydney of the past to the Thailand of today
This Friday 15 October 2010 I will be appearing on a fantastic panel for the Sisters in Crime alongside Sulari Gentill and PM Newton, ’From the Sydney of the past to the Thailand of today: How crime (writing) interprets the World‘. Sulari and … Continue reading
