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Category Archives: Sisters in Crime
SheKilda 3…where a criminally good time was had by all
This post is based on an article that appeared on the Sisters in Crime Australia website, with editorial comments as noted. Sisters in Crime celebrated its 25th birthday in style at SheKilda3: One-day Crime Spree at St Kilda Town Hall … 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
Death in July wrap up
I’m still on a high following Death in July. That sounds so wrong, but it feels so right. This inaugural festival to celebrate Australian women’s crime fiction in Ballarat, a collaboration between Sisters in Crime and Ballarat Writers was by all … Continue reading
Festival: Death in July
Next weekend I head to Ballarat for Death in July: A Festival of Women’s Crime Writing. A collaboration between Sisters in Crime Australia and Ballarat Writers Inc, Death in July is a celebration of Australian women’s crime writing designed to get the blood pumping despite … Continue reading
Sisters in Crime: Across all worlds
I am very excited to be part of Sisters in Crime: Across all worlds, a panel discussion to be chaired by one of my favourite Australian crime writers Leigh Redhead, this Friday 19 July 2013. I’ll be sharing the panel with … Continue reading
Posted in Sisters in Crime
Tagged Angela Savage, Annie Hauxwell, Leigh Redhead, Melanie Casey, Sisters in Crime Australia
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Jump cuts
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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SheKilda Again
In 2001, the Sisters in Crime Australia celebrated their tenth anniversary by holding the country’s first crime convention in the St Kilda Town Hall in Melbourne; hence the name, SheKilda. Rumour has it the SheKilda organising committee took a decade … Continue reading
Book review: Labyrinth of Drowning
I recently completed several book reviews for Sisters in Crime, the first of which was by award winning author Alex Palmer. Speaking of awards, my novel The Half-Child is in the running in this year’s Davitt Awards and has been nominated … Continue reading
Crime & Justice Festival de-brief 2009
I enjoyed the 2009 Crime & Justice Festival even more than last year’s. The crowds were bigger, the venue warmer, and it helped not being jet-lagged for the duration. I was facilitating panels rather than being a panelist this year, … Continue reading