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Category Archives: Awards & Short lists
Katherine Brabon wins the 2016 Vogel Award
Earlier this week, Katherine (Kate) Brabon was announced as winner of the 2016 Vogel Literary Award for her unpublished novel, The Memory Artist. The way the award is organised meant that less than 24 hours later, Kate became a published … Continue reading
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Tagged Katherine Brabon, The Memory Artist, Vogel Award 2016
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Davitt Awards 2015
Reproduced with permission from the Sisters in Crime Australia Inc website. I’ll add that it was a genuine pleasure on the awards night to interview Sophie Hannah, and elicit her advice to aspiring writers, which boiled down to, ‘Say yes … Continue reading
Scarlet Stiletto Awards shortlist 2014
I’m thrilled to share news that my short story, ‘The Elephant Thief’, has been shortlisted by Sisters in Crime Australia for the 2014 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. It’s the third time I’ve entered a story in the Scarlet Stiletto Awards. First time around was 1998, … Continue reading
Davitt Awards 2014 Winners
Sisters in Crime Australia last night presented the 14th Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. Although my shortlisted novel The Dying Beach didn’t win Best Adult Novel, I was delighted to see the prize go to one of my favourite Australian … Continue reading
Davitt Awards 2014 shortlist
Sisters in Crime Australia yesterday announced its shortlist for its 14th Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women, and I was thrilled to learn that The Dying Beach made this year’s shortlist for Best Adult Novel. It’s the first time a novel of … Continue reading
Turning women to crime
This article first appeared in artsHub, Thursday 14 Nov 2013. Photos are the author’s own. Twenty years ago the Scarlet Stilettos changed crime writing from a gritty macho genre to a sexy stage for women writers. Red shoes, according to the … Continue reading
Ned Kelly Awards 2013
Geoffrey McGeachin has won the 2013 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction for Blackwattle Creek (Penguin), the sequel to The Diggers Rest Hotel, which won the same award in 2011. The award for Best First Fiction was won by Zane Lovitt … Continue reading
The Red Shoe
Last night I had a wonderful dream that my short story ‘The Teardrop Tattoos’ won the Sisters in Crime 18th Scarlet Stiletto Awards. Then I woke up and found on my kitchen table a scarlet stiletto mounted on a perspex … Continue reading
Accounting for taste
At the risk of never eating lunch in this town again or at least not making invitation lists for future Davitt Awards and Stella Prize, I’m going to weigh into the debate about gender bias in Australian crime writing awards recently … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Savage, Australian crime writing, Bunty Avieson, Carolyn Morwood, Chloe Hooper, Colleen Egan, Davitt Awards, Dorothy Porter, Gabrielle Lord, Geesche Jacobsen, gender bias in literary awards, Katherine Howell, Lindy Cameron, Miles Franklin Awards, Ned Kelly Awards, Sisters in Crime Australia, Stella Prize, Tara Moss
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