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Mornington Peninsula & Frankston Writers & Book Festival 2019: Crime in our Backyard

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With:

Emma Viskic, Tania Chandler, Mark Brandi, Andrew Nette

Rating:

ALL

Summary:

Join Writers Victoria to celebrate their 30th anniversary with a panel exploring crime writing in our own backyard with four of the state's greatest!

Crime in our backyard

Details

Information and tickets via Mornington Peninsula & Frankston Writers & Books Festival website

About Mark Brandi

Mark Brandi's bestselling novel, Wimmera, won the British Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger, and was named Best Debut at the Australian Indie Book Awards. It was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards Literary Fiction Book of the Year, and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year. His second novel, The Rip, is out now.

About Tania Chandler

Tania Chandler is a writer, writing teacher and editor. Her novels ‘Please Don’t Leave Me Here’ and ‘Dead in the Water’ have been published in Australia and internationally, selected for reading programs and shortlisted for awards.

About Andrew Nette

Andrew Nette is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of two novels, Ghost Money, a crime story set in Cambodia in the mid-nineties, and Gunshine State. He is co-editor of Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980, published by PM Press, and Sticking It To the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1956 to 1980, to be published by PM in late 2019. His short fiction has appeared in a number of print and on-line publications. You can find him via his website www.pulpcurry.com or on Twitter at @Pulpcurry.

About Emma Viskic

Emma Viskic’s critically acclaimed Caleb Zelic series has been published worldwide and won numerous awards.  RESURRECTION BAY won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and an unprecedented three Davitt Awards. It was iBooks Australia’s Crime Novel of the Year, and shortlisted for the UK’s prestigious Gold Dagger and New Blood Awards. AND FIRE CAME DOWN won the 2018 Davitt Award for Best Novel and was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award. Formerly a classical clarinettist, Emma’s musical career ranged from performing with José Carreras, to playing at an engagement party that ended in a brawl. She learned Australian sign language in order to create the character of Caleb Zelic who is profoundly deaf. The third novel in the series, DARKNESS FOR LIGHT, will be out this December.

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Venue:

Functions By the Bay
Cnr Plowman Place & Young Street
Frankston
Victoria 3199 Australia

Contact:

Phone: 90947840
Email: [email protected]

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