Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Update
Attention crime writers and amateur sleuths; time is running out fast to get your entry in for this year’s Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto short story awards. You have until JUNE 30th to get your entry in. Eeek! That’s only two weeks away! Submissions are closing a little earlier than usual this year, due to Sisters in Crime 20th Anniversary Crime Writer’s Convention, SheKilda Again, to be held in Melbourne in October.
Entries can be up to 5000 words, must have a female main character and involve a crime of any description. Entry fee is $10 per story and you can submit up to 2 stories. This year the prize pool is $4750.
Those prizes include:
• HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS 1st Prize: $750 Plus the coveted Scarlet Stiletto Trophy.
• KILL CITY 2nd Prize: $400
• READINGS 3rd Prize: $300 (Voucher)
• ALLEN & UNWIN Young Writers Award (under 18): $400
• THE OLVAR WOOD LATE STARTERS AWARD ( ages 60+) $1200 three-month mentorship through Olvar Wood Writers Retreat
• THE KERRY GREENWOOD Malice Domestic Award: $500
• THE CATE KENNEDY Award for Best New Talent: $350
• THE CLANDESTINE PRESS Award for Cross-Genre: $300
• BENN’S BOOKS Best Investigative Award: $200
• SCRIPTWORKS Great Film Idea Award: $200
• PULP FICTION Funniest Crime Award: $150 (Voucher)
Check out the Sisters in Crime website for more information and entry form for the 2011 Scarlet Stiletto Short
Story competition at: http://www.sistersincrime.org.au/node/88 or click on the Scarlet Stiletto tab.
Judges: National Convenors, Sisters in Crime
For further information, contact: Scarlet Stiletto Awards, PO Box 121, Bittern, Vic 3918.
Or call Carmel Shute: 0412 569 356 cshute@internode.on.net
While you’re over at the Sisters in Crime website, don’t forget to vote for this year’s Davitt awards if you’re eligible. Our very own Marianne Delacourt is up for a Davitt again this year! Just click on the Davitt Awards tab, and the online voting form will pop up.
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