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Nadine Garner presents the 17th Scarlet Stiletto Awards & talks to Sue Turnbull about her life in crime Nadine Garner stars as Detective Senior Constable Jennifer Mapplethorpe in Seven’s drama City Homicide (2007-). Her other crime credits include The Bill, Stingers, Water Rats, Good Guys Bad Guys, Prisoner, and the telemovies, Heroes’ Mountain and The Feds: Deception. Garner first came to public attention in 1985, as Tamara Henderson in the Australian TV series, The Henderson Kids and then in her debut film, The Still Point. She has worked extensively in film, theatre and TV (both in Australia and the UK) and received awards and nominations for performances in each field. Also interested in writing, Garner wrote and performed in the stage work Birds Eye View in Sydney, 2002. In 2002-3 she played in a national tour of the musical Cabaret and received enthusiastic reviews— as well as two theatre awards— for her performance as Fraulein Kost/Fritzi. She was won the AFI Best Actress award in 1988 for her role in Mull. This year, 145 short stories compete for the coveted Scarlet Stiletto trophy and $4750 in prize money. Prizes kindly donated by HarperCollins, Kill City, Readings Books & Music, Allen & Unwin, Olvar Wood Writers Retreat, Scriptworks, Benn’s Book Shop, Pulp Fiction Book Shop, Kerry Greenwood, Cate Kennedy, and Andrea Goldsmith. The awards are also supported by Spinifex Press. Fashionista Sally Brown is the Scarlet Stilettos’ patron, offering an on-going supply of scarlet stilettos in which she’s been photographed in all over the world, including the peak of Mt Kilimanjaro. She will briefly introduce the awards with a story of one of the photos. Bell’s Hotel, 157 Moray St., South Melbourne (cnr Coventry). Mel 57, G1. Try 112, 55 or St Kilda Road trams. Free on-street parking after 6pm. $5/$10 (non-members) 10% discount from BennsBooks stall. ‘Brothers-in-Law’ welcome. Please book for both dinner (from 6.30pm) and event (8pm) as each table is being decorated by a flower-filled Scarlet Stiletto loaned by Sally Browne. Bookings: Rose Mercer on 03 8060 2737 or rose@grahammercer.com.au Info: Carmel Shute on 0412 569 356 or go to http://www.sistersincrime.org.au/
30/10/10 Brookside 10am -11.30 13/11/10 Victoria Point 11am – 1pm 20/11/10 Redbank Plaza 11.30am – 1pm 25/11/10 Post Office Square 12.00am -2pm 27/11/10 Chermside 10.30am – 12, Stafford 12.30 – 2pm 4/12/10 Carindale 12 – 2pm 11/12/10 Burleigh Heads 11am – 1pm 18/12/10 North Lakes 10 am – 12 pm, Kippa Ring 12.30 – 2pm Been a little quiet on the ether-waves lately. Not had a lot of news to share, and my reading has slowed as I’ve had visitors. Back on the job now though and today I had an interview with Del Nightingale from Radio Port Phillip about Tara Sharp. I’ll l blog when it’s due to air. IMT, don’t forget the B format edition of Sharp Shooter is out next month. Would look great in someone’s xmas stocking! If you’re in Melbourne you might like to check this event out:
L.A. Larkin’s debut thriller, The Genesis Flaw, has received great reviews, including in The Age, and has featured on Channel 7’s Today Tonight program. She and Carmel Shute will discuss the depiction of environmental themes by fiction authors over the last 20 years, moving through John Grisham’s The Pelican Brief and Michael Crichton’s State of Fear, through to more recent novels such as Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake / Year of The Flood and Ian McEwan’s Solar. They will ask if the rise of the environmental thriller marks a change in focus in the general population, and they will discuss the research done to ensure the fiction rings true. A timely debate, considering how Melbourne voted in the recent Federal Election.” Free, but please book on 9681 9255 or by email. |
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