Sydney novellist Josephine Pennicott has won HarperCollins First Prize of $1000 in Sisters in Crime Australia’s 19th Scarlet Stiletto Awards for her short story “Shadows”, a story about obsession, grief and the power of words and perception. Pennicott also won the coveted stiletto trophy¸ a scarlet stiletto shoe with a steel stiletto heel plunging into a mount, back in 2001 for her short story “Birthing the Demons”.

An elated Pennicott told the 120-strong crowd at South Melbourne’s Rising Sun Hotel on Friday night (23/11), that she’d been trying to win a second shoe for eleven long years. “It’s (almost) worth killing for.”

“We have incredible women writers in Australia – Sisters in Crime has always acknowledged that with its Scarlet Stiletto Awards. To be even shortlisted for this prestigious annual award has always meant so much to me. Red shoes can symbolise home, danger, sex and passion. I’m honoured I’m now one of the select women writers in Australia who has won a pair of shoes – Wwich must make me an extremely, dangerous, passionate writer!”

Pennicott is the 5^th author in the 19 years of the national short story competition to win the shoe twice. However, only the winner of the first two Scarlet Stilettos Awards – Cate Kennedy – has a matching pair. Under Sisters in Crime’s rules, Pennicott will no longer be eligible to compete and will be invited to become a judge.

Poet’s Cottage, Pennicott’s mystery novel set in a Tasmanian sea-fishing village, was published by Pan Macmillan Australia in May this year. It has been sold in a bid ding war to Ullstein publishers in Germany, along with Currawong Manori, her current mystery in progress. (See Pennicott’s blog on the award: http://josephinepennicott.com/2012/11/25/1am-in-melbourne/)

Marion Boyce, costume designer for Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, and Miss Fisher’s literary creator, author Kerry Greenwood, presented the awards after debating with Sisters in Crime’s co-convenor about how much the designs contributed to the mood and style of the successful 13-part television series shown on ABC 1 earlier this year.

Boyce and Greenwood were joined by fashion lecture, Dr Sue Thomas, to judged the winner of the Frocked Up for Phryne competition for the best Phryne-inspired outfit. The winner was Fiona Chisholm who was visiting from Sydney. Chisholm bought her entire outfit, including a vintage beaded handbag, from op shops.

A record 182 short stories competed for eleven awards in all and $5350 in prize money. A record 22 authors were short-listed. The boost in the number of stories is attributed to new award offered by Melbourne’s famous Athenaeum Library – a prize of $1000 (as well as a runner-up prize of $500) for the best short story with the words “body in the library”, the title of Agatha Christie’s famous novel. Sixty-two stories with her immortal words fought it out for the award. Athenaeum Board member Anne Malloch announced that the library would again sponsor the award next year.

Emilie Collyer (West Footscray, Vic) took out both The Kill City 2nd prize ($400) The Clandestine Press Award for Cross Genre ($300) for “A Clean Job”, a futuristic story about a world where the neutralisation of emotions is compulsory and an enforcement officer risks everything when she starts to succumb to her feelings. Collyer writes fiction, plays and poetry and is completing a Masters in Writing for Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts.

The Cate Kennedy Award for Third Prize ($350) went to Claire McKenna (Seaford, Vic), for “Live to Spring”. Claire McKenna normally writes in the safe places of science fiction, she’s recently taken to moonlighting in the underworld of crime fiction for a touch of literary danger and excitement.

Kath Harper (Port Fairy, Vic) won the inaugural Athenaeum Library ‘Body in the Library Award ($1000) for Brought to Book, a story about a quiet night in the library that turns deadly as revenge strikes the unwary. Harper is an ex-school teacher, an editor/indexer by day and a writer of plays and short stories whenever she has the time.

The runner-up award ($500) went to Aoife Clifford (East Ivanhoe, Vic) for “Quit” which also took out the Pulp Fiction Bookshop: Funniest Crime Award ($150 voucher). Clifford gives Shane Maloney a run for his money with her hilarious story about Victorian Labor politics: “When a murdered teenage girl is found in Premier Prenderghast’s holiday home, political fixer Callan Valiant is called in to solve the crime and work out who could possibly hate the Premier more than the voting public.”

Clifford won first prize in 2007, was runner-up in 2009 and has won numerous category awards. Both stories appeared in the collection, Scarlet Stiletto: The Second Cut. She has been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger and this year she won the Ned Kelly – S.D. Harvey Short Story Award. She is currently writing her first crime novel.

The Kerry Greenwood Malice Domestic Award ($500) went to Sarah Evans (Bridgetown, WA) for “Fish for Freedom”. Sarah is a Scarlet Stiletto serial category winner and her daughter, Mary Evans, was commended in the Youth Category for “Pizza with Extras”. Last year both mother and daughter won prizes.

Robyn McWilliam (Avalon, NSW) won Benn’s Books Best Investigative Award ($200)

for “Nursing a Suspicion” about a nurse who proves her weirdo neighbour, Frank, is a killer. A former convenor of Partners in Crime in Sydney, her crime stories won prizes in the Queen of Crime Awards in 2004 and 2005 and in 2008 she was commended in the Scarlet Stiletto Awards.

Her first crime novel, House of Shadows, was the only fiction short-listed as one of the best self-published books of 2002. She is currently looking for a publisher for her latest novel Malevolent Desire.

The Scriptworks Great Film Idea Award ($200) was awarded to Helen Illes from (Oldbury, WA) for “Much Ado about Nunning”. Helen is currently the President of the Society of Women Writers WA and a Creative Writing tutor. Helen also writes training text books for Fire and Emergency Services Authority WA and was unable to attend in person as she was running a Mounted Search and Rescue training camp that weekend.

The Inaugural Catherine Leppert Environmental Theme Award ($250) went to Candice Graham (Pennant Hills, NSW) for “Fallen Angel”, a story about a semi-retired forensic anthropologist who recognises the woman in her latest facial reconstruction. Graham is studying for a Masters in Clinical Neuropsychology. She has read very few crime novels and this has been her first attempt at writing within this genre.

Ebony Franzman (Jimboona, Qld), who describes herself as “a 17 year old Catholic girl from a country town” who wants be a lawyer, won Allen & Unwin Young Writer’s Award ($500) for “Perspective”.

Two former first prize winners were highly commended: Liz Filleul (Mt Dandenong, Vic) for “We are Golden” and Julie Waight (Wedderburn, Vic) for “Coming Home.

Also highly commended were:

• Catherine Titasey (Thursday Island, Qld) for “My Most Difficult Investigation”;
• Sharon Rushton (Bundaberg North, Qld), for “Plain Jane’s Body”;
• Sharon Todd (Empire Bay, NSW),  for “Rivals”;
• Brooke Maggs (Greensborough, Vic) for “The Promotion”;
• Melanie Myers (Stafford, Queensland) for “Trailer Trash”;
• Kate McIvor (Sorrento, Vic) for “Nanny Barton”;
• Anne Chapel (Kent Town, SA), for “God’s Punishment is Stern”.

Scarlet Stiletto: The Second Cut, a collection of 22 winning stories from the last four year of the competition, together with a reprint of Scarlet Stiletto: The First Cut, a volume of 26 stories from the first 13 years, were published by Clan Destine Press for SheKilda 2011: Australian Women Crime Writers’ Convention (7-9 October), Sisters in Crime’s 20^th anniversary celebrations.

So far, 16 Scarlet Stiletto Award winners (including category winners) – Cate Kennedy, Angela Savage, Tara Moss,Josephine Pennicott, Annie Hauwxell, Sara Evans, Inga Simpson, Alex Palmer, Liz Filleul, Margaret Bevege, Patricia Bernard, Bronwen Blake, Jo McGahey, Cheryl Jorgensen, Kylie Fox, and Amanda Wrangles – have gone on to have novels published.

The 20th Scarlet Stiletto Awards close on August 31, 2013. The entry fee is $10. Entry forms will be available next year by going to www.sistersincrime.org.au or by writing to Sisters in Crime, GPO Box 5319, Melbourne 3001

Print quality photos can be emailed on request: cshute@internode.on.net or Carmel Shute on 0412 569 356 cshute@internode.on.net

Media comment: Contact Phyllis King on 0411 084 300

More: http://www.facebook.com/SistersInCrimeAustralia

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SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES: 12^TH DAVITT AWARDS’ RESULTS

Sulari Gentill from Batlow (regional NSW) won the Davitt Award (Adult Fiction) for her historical crime novel, A Decline in Prophets (Pantera Press) at Sisters in Crime Australia’s crime writing awards (1 September).

Fremantle (WA) writer Meg McKinlay took out Davitt Award (Children’s/Young Adult) for Surface Tension (Walker Books) while Melbourne journalist, Liz Porter, was awarded the Davitt Award (True Crime) for Cold Case Files: Past crimes solved by new forensic science (Pan Macmillan Australia).

The inaugural Davitt Award (Debut) went to former journalist and broadcaster, Jaye Ford (Lake Macquarie, NSW) for her psychological thriller, Beyond Fear (Random House). Forde also won the Davitt Award (Readers’ Choice) which was jointly awarded to former Tasmanian police officer Y.A. Erskine for The Brotherhood (Random House), a novel about corruption in the Tasmanian police force.

High commendations were awarded to Carolyn Morwood, Death and the Spanish Lady (Pulp Fiction Press) in the Davitt (Adult) category and Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day (Allen & Unwin) in the (Children’s/Young Adult) category.

Award-winning Swedish crime writer Ǻsa Larsson presented the 12^th Davitt Awards at a gala dinner of over 100 crime buffs at the Celtic Club in Melbourne where she also talked to Professor Sue Turnbull about her ‘life in crime’. Turnbull coined the term ‘Arctic Noir’ to describe Larsson’s novels which are set in the icy wilderness of northern Sweden.

Turnbull, also a national co-convenor of Sisters in Crime and the Sydney Morning Herald’s crime columnist) said that Sisters in Crime had been delighted (and amazed), to see women scooping the pools at this year’s Ned Kelly Awards (29 August).

“Four of the 6 awards on offer went to women including the Life Time Achievement Award which went to Gabrielle Lord. To cap it off, all presenters were women so it was far from the blokey affair of previous years,” she said.

“The sisters are doing it for themselves right across the crime board. This year, we’ve had the pleasure of the TV series, Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries, based on the 1920s flapper detective series by Kerry Greenwood, a founding member of Sisters in Crime.

“You open the Australian Women’s Weekly and you read a feature on Warragul member and author, Honey Brown. You open the Saturday Weekend magazine of the Herald Sun) and you read features about Sydney members Kathryn Fox and Josephine Pennicott – or Honey Brown. You walk into the airport and there is a giant illuminated poster promoting the latest novel by Cairns member Helene Young.”

Larsson delighted the audience with her ability to make jokes in her second language, English. She was so impressed by the event that she intends to set up Sisters in Crime in Sweden.

Davitt judge spokesperson Tanya King-Carmichael said that this year 49 books had competed for the Davitts, handsome carved polished wooded trophies featuring the front cover of the winning book under perspex.

 The surge in young adult and children’s crime fiction by women was particularly notable. For the first time, the number of children’s/young adult crime novels (18) nearly equalled the number of adult crime novels (22) and this is without anything in the league of Gabrielle Lord’s 11-book nomination for her Conspiracy 365 series last year,” she said.

“However, the number of true books was again fairly low with most coming from independent and small publishers, a worrying trend. They also varied significantly in quality and in subject matter.”

King-Carmichael said that A Decline in Prophets, Gentill’s second in Rowland Sinclair series, set in early 1930s, proved that “the difficult second novel can be delivered with style and aplomb”.

Gentill, a former lawyer who now grows black truffles in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, said, “To receive any literary award is gratifying, but when the award is the Davitt—for which writers would not only kill, but in fact must kill in order to be eligible—it is a truly extraordinary honour.”

Paving the Way, Gentill’s fourth book in the Rowland Sinclair series, is just out.

King-Carmichael said that the Davitt (True Crime) had never before gone to an anthology.

 “The strength of Cold Case Files lies in clearly explaining how modern technology can be used to break cold cases,” she said.

Porter told the crowd, “A book like Cold Case Files is a hell of a lot of work. There were twenty cases, from all around Australia, from the UK and the US, to research. An award like this tells me that I have succeeded in entertaining a group of people whose intelligence I respect and whose interests I share. It’s a wonderful feeling,”

The Davitt judges described Meg McKinlay’s young adult novel, Surface Tension as “a stand-out, a sublimely beautiful book”.

McKinlay, a former university lecturer, was committed to appear at various WA Book Week events and was unable to accept the award in person. McKinlay send a message to say that she considered herself, as something of an ‘accidental’ crime writer, having failed to realise Surface Tension fitted the genre until it appeared on the Davitt longlist.

 “My mother, who is possibly one of Australia’s most avid readers of crime fiction, could not be more delighted with this unexpected turn of events,” she said.

King-Carmichael said that Jaye Ford, the winner of two Davitts, was quickly making a name for herself in the crime genre with her spine-tingling novels featuring gutsy characters and Australian settings.

“Her first book, Beyond Fear, is the highest selling debut crime novel in Australia in 2011 and the fifth highest selling debut across all genres. It should come with the warning: Don’t Read Before Bed,” she said.

Ford’s second thriller, Scared Yet?, was released in March this year. Both novels have sold overseas and are currently being translated into eight languages. Now writing full-time, Jaye is currently working on her third thriller, called Blood Secret and is signed to write a fourth for Random House.

Joint winner of the Davitt (Readers’Choice), Y.A. Erskine, was a constable in the Tasmania Police Service for eleven years. She was active in frontline policing, served as a detective in the CIB and as an investigator in a high-profile, two-year covert task force investigating an international abalone smuggling ring.

The second in her TasPol series, The Betrayal, came out in May. Erskine, who had her first baby last month, now lives in Melbourne where she is writing the third in the series.

She praised Sisters in Crime for providing “a wonderful network of people who are always there to entertain, critique, support and mentor”.

The 550 members of Sisters in Crime vote for the Davitt (Readers’ Choice).

 Northcote crime buff Allie Dawe won the Be Immortalized in Fiction competition which means her name will appear in Sulari Gentill’s next crime book.

The Davitts are named in honour of Ellen Davitt (1812-1879) who wrote Australia’s first mystery novel, Force and Fraud, in 1865.

Media comment: Tanya King-Carmichael on 0418 574 907

Info & author interviews: Carmel Shute, National Co-convenor, Sisters in Crime Australia: 0412 569 356

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Please note date and venue for the June Sisters in Crime Brisbane meeting,  as well as topic (including homework) and other dates for your diaries.

What: June Sisters in Crime Brisbane meeting

When:  Saturday, 2 June 

Time: 12:30pm – 2:30pm.
Where:  State Library of Queensland, meeting room 4.D,  level 4. *Room booked 12:30 – 3:00pm

Who: Sisters in Crime members and any other female readers, writers or lovers of the crime genre. 

Writing homework: Your opening paragraph. (from your novel, short story, or future story) *Please bring it printed out with no name on the page.

All paragraphs will be read out to the group, but who will solve the mystery of the writer?

Here are some tips from  British crime writer, Zoë Sharp on making the beginning of your story a page turner: 

“The opening chapter of your crime novel, be it mystery or thriller-orientated, is very much like presenting the reader with a Simulated Casualty exercise.

Doesn’t matter if they open the door and find themselves in the middle of an Edwardian house party, a fire-fight, a moorland crime scene, or a dark alley at night with footsteps echoing behind them. Whatever your choice of opening scene, they have to be there and be gripped and engaged by it right away if you’re going to keep them turning the pages at the end of chapter one”.”

Other dates for your diary:

SinC Brisbane Convenor, Meg Van’s workshop ‘Research for Crime Fiction’  on 16 June at the Qld Police Museum:

http://www.qwc.asn.au/courses-and-events/courses/weekend-workshops/workshops/research-for-crime-fiction/

Queensland Police Museum Sunday lectures:

May 27 11am – 12.30pm 

Garry Ryan, Vehicle Inspection Unit

Proving vehicle faults after crashes 

June 24 11am – 12.30pm 

Lisa Jones, Curator, Queensland Police Museum

History of the Queensland Police Dog Squad 

And don’t forget to click ‘like’ on the Brisbane Sisters in Crime facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sisters-in-Crime-Brisbane/100819836673697

For all Sisters in Crime Brisbane event and membership inquiries, please email:

sincbris@gmail.com

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Sisters in Crime

2011 Scarlet Stiletto Awards

Article by: Amanda Wrangles

Friday November 25^th was a big one. It was Stiletto time again.

Stiletto time, I hear you ask? Well, yes. Each year, Sisters in Crime Australia hold their short crime story competition. Those of us who enter year after year send off our criminal imaginings months prior to the event, and then try to forget about it while the judging process takes place. Usually by the end of October, those who’ve made the shortlist are notified – generally this is around 15 to 18 stories out of about 130 or so (of course it varies each year…) And then, on the last Friday in November, the big award night takes place. It’s a nail-biting evening full of good food, drinks and the most interesting company. I mean, where else would it be perfectly acceptable to talk murder and mayhem all night with a bunch of like-minded women?

Most years, during dinner and before the actual awards, the audience gets to hear from a special guest – say, an actress from a televised crime show. This year, however, four previous shoe winners were grilled on the art of writing short crime stories by long-time Sisters in Crime National co-convenor, Lindy Cameron. The line-up included Liz Filleul (2004 winner), Evelyn Tsitis (2008), Amanda Wrangles (um, yeah, that would be me for 2009) and Eleanor Marney (2010). Hopefully we kept the crowd entertained with tales of scribbling out words in between wrangling children.

Then it was on to the actual awards, presented by crime novelist PD (Phillipa) Martin. Special Commendations went to: Suzanne Gaskell, Amanda Carmen-Cromer, Robin Story, Marian Cox, Kerry James and Amanda Wrangles.

The Allen & Unwin Young Writers Award: co-winners were Mary Evans and Sarah Robinson-Hatch.
Judges Award (donated by Christine Leppert): Kim Westwood.
Scriptworks Great Film Idea Award: Fiona Drury.
Pulp Fiction Award for Funniest Crime Story: Sarah Evans.
Cate Kennedy Award for Best New Talent: Marguerite Johnson.
Olvar Wood Late Starters Award & also Benn’s Books Best Investigative Award: Anne Cost.
Kerry Greenwood Malice Domestic Award: Vicky Daddo.
Third Prize: Carmela Salomon.
Clandestine Press Award for Cross Genre and Second Prize: Liz Filleul.

and finally, First Prize – Scarlet Stiletto trophy went to the fabulous Angela Savage for her story, ‘The Teardrop Tattoos’.

This was the first time in the award’s 18 year history that it was won by a crime writer with one or more crime novels already to her credit. Angela’s novels include ‘Behind the Night Bazaar’ and ‘The Half Child’, both of which feature PI Jayne Keeney, who made her first appearance in Angela’s 1998 3^rd prize winning Scarlet Stiletto story. Angela is a wonderful supporter of SinC, so we were all thrilled to see her take home the shoe. Over the years, a number of winners and category winners have gone on to publish novels. These include: Cate Kennedy, Angela Savage, Josephine Pennicott, Sara Evans, Inga Simpson, Alex Palmer, Liz Filleul, Margaret Bevege, Patricia Bernard, Bronwen Blake, Jo McGahey,Cheryl Jorgensen, Kylie Fox, Amanda Wrangles and Tara Moss. 2011 was also the first year the Judges Award was presented, and was taken home by Kim Westwood, author of novels ‘The Daughters of Moab’ and recently, ‘The Courier’s New Bicycle’ (you can read my review here).

As always, the 18^th Scarlet Stiletto Awards was a brilliant night. It was great to see lots of new faces among the ‘usual suspects’ – those whose names turn up year after year in the awards. I’m looking forward to next year’s competition where, as a new National Co-convenor and judge, I get to be on the other side of the judging process and READ all those criminally great stories!

PS – There are two ‘best of’ collections available from the eighteen years of Stiletto stories: ‘The First Cut’ and (surprisingly…) ‘The Second Cut’. Both are available through Clan Destine Press.

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NEWS FROM SISTERS IN CRIME, AUSTRALIA

Crime lovers, particularly those of us in Melbourne, have some dates to mark on their calendars. Sisters in Crime apologise that there are fewer events throughout the year – but it’s with good reason. SheKilda 2 is coming!!! Featuring the best crime fiction talent from around the country (including, of course, our very own Marianne Delacourt), this is the convention that all lovers of crime MUST attend. October 7 – 9, 2011.

SheKilda Again, marks the 20^th Anniversary of Sisters in Crime Australia and will include panels and workshops with all of your favourite Aussie crime authors. And, some very special international guests too:  Margie Orford – South Africa, Vanda Symon – New Zealand and, Shamini Flint from Singapore.

The new website for the event which will include all the exciting news of the event will be launched on Friday May 20 at SinC event, Courting Justice (see below).

8pm FRIDAY MAY 20, 2011: COURTING JUSTICE

Three of Victoria’s top female legal eagles bring experience, verve and humour (and many tales) to a debate about where you go for justice when faced with a legal issue, whether it’s a neighbourhood dispute, settling a will or a (nasty or very nasty) accusation? Who does what and what can (and does) happen?

Interrogating the judges is true crime author and novelist, Robin Bowles.

Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth has served on the Supreme Court of Victoria since 2004 and is a former Rhodes Scholar and Senior Counsel.  She has sat in a broad range of civil and criminal trials and appeals including the recent trial of serial killer, Peter Dupas, for the murder of Mersina Halvagis.

Judge Liz Gaynor was a defence barrister before becoming a judge in the County Court in 2002.  In last year’s ‘Punji hunting’ case, she declared that some boys ”ought to be “put in a dark   cupboard at 16 and brought out again at age 25”. She is a different sort of judge (and frequent debater) in the annual Ned Kelly Crime Writing Awards.

Jelena Popovic, Deputy Chief Magistrate, was appointed to Magistrates’ Court of Victoria in 1989 after ten years in practice as a solicitor. She is passionate about the significant role of the Magistrates’ Court in our community, particularly its role in problem-solving and reducing crime. An advocate of “therapeutic jurisprudence”, she’s interested in how factors like disability, drugs, mental health, homelessness and Aboriginality impact on defendants in the criminal justice system.  She is the Co-ordinating Magistrate of the Koori Court and has court portfolio responsibility for the Criminal Justice Diversion Program.

NOTE: New venue: The Rising Sun Hotel, corner Raglan Street & Eastern Road, South Melbourne (cnr Coventry). Mel 57, H2.Try 112, 55 or St Kilda Road trams. Free on-street parking after 6pm.

Entry is $5 for SinC members, $10 for non-members. Dinner can be purchased from the venue before the event.

Tuesday May 24, 2011: Where (and How and Why) Crime Fiction

Gets It Wrong

(Part of the 2011 Bayside Literary Festival)

True crime author & Brighton resident Vikki Petraitis has rounded up some of the usual (often unusual) suspects to spill the beans. She interrogates a judge, a true crime writer and a novelist on where (and how and why) crime on the page and screen contrasts so wildly with what really happens in real life:

Judge Liz Gaynor was a defence barrister before becoming a judge in the County Court in 2002. She is a different sort of judge in the annual Ned Kelly Crime Writing Awards.  She’s outspoken, funny, fair and very, very smart.

Liz Porter, a Brighton resident journalist Liz Porter is the author of Written On The Skin: An Australian Forensic Casebook (Pan Macmillan), a joint winner of the 2007 Ned Kelly Award for best true crime book. Her latest work, Cold Case Files: Past crimes solved by new forensic science, published by Pan Macmillan in May, features cases from Australia, the UK and the US.  Murder and DNA are recurring themes, but the book also covers mysteries involving art fraud, the mysterious death of an Egyptian mummy and the authorship of Bach’s cello suites.  Info: http://www.panmacmillan.com.au/display_title.asp?ISBN=9781742610092&Author=Porter,%20Liz

P D (Phillipa Deanne) Martin has written five novels featuring ex-pat FBI criminal profiler Sophie Anderson, all of which have received glowing reviews in Australia and overseas. To date, the series has been published in thirteen countries. She’s also written an ebook. To date, the series has been published in thirteen countries. She’s contributed to a true crime anthology titled Meaner than Fiction.  Info: www.pdmartin.com.au

7.30-9pm, Tuesday May 24 — Brighton Savoy Hotel, 150 The Esplanade, Brighton Cost: $15.Bookings (from early May): www.bayside.vic.gov.au/literaryfestival

PHRYNE FISHER TV SERIES – seeking extras

http://www.everycloudproductions.com.au/news/p/16

Every Cloud Productions:We are excited to announce an opportunity for Phryne fans to get involved in the production.
We are looking for people interested in working as extras on the series, which is set in 1920s Melbourne.
Our casting department is looking for men and women over the age of 18. Of course, the ‘look’ of the 1920s is a world away from 2011, so we would not be able to cast anyone with gel nails, any obvious hair colouring or hair extensions, any visible tattoos or piercings or fake tans. Men would have to be prepared to have their hair cut in the period style.
If you are interested in working as an extra please email gow.martine@abc.net.auwith your full name, age, contact details, measurements (chest, waist, hips, shoe) and two photos of yourself (a head shot and a full body shot).

Become a Facebook friend of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries or see here for any updates and upcoming Phryne news!

CARMEL BIRD SHORT FICTION COMPETITION

http://shortaustralianstories.com.au/submissions/

Spineless Wonders are calling for short fiction submissions, to 3,000 words, open theme. Closing date is 31 July, 2011.

First Prize – $500
Two runners up – $100 each

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