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About Sisters in Crime AustraliaAbout Sisters in Crime Australia * The Scarlet Stiletto Award * Joining Sisters in Crime Australia * The Convenors Sisters in Crime is Australia's fastest growing literary society and, arguably, also its fastest growing women's organisation. It was launched at the Feminist Book Festival in Melbourne in September 1991 and grew out of our shared interest in women's crime and mystery fiction. It was inspired by the American organisation of the same name, which was initiated by Sara Paretsky (creator of Chicago PI VI Warshawski) and other women crime writers in 1986. Some Sisters are writers, publishers, students, academics and booksellers, but most are simply enthusiastic, if not obsessive, readers. Sisters in Crime Australia has over 500 members and plays an active role in promoting women's crime fiction and in correcting the imbalance in the treatment of women writers in the field. Sisters in Crime Australia publishes a national newsletter and meets in Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Launceston and Brisbane. The Melbourne chapter hosts a variety of regular events – discussion meetings, guest speakers, murder mystery days, quiz nights – and also participates in the Melbourne and St Kilda Writers' Festivals.
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The
founder of Sisters in Crime USA meets Sisters in Crime Australia. Front,
(L to R): Helen Halliday, Sue Turnbull, Sara Paretsky,
Carmel Shute. Back, (L to R): Jane Inglis, Renata Singer,
Lindy Cameron