Danger Awards & Crime Quiz Night
Join us for the now traditional and slightly raucous Crime Trivia Quiz night with drinks and nibbles. Then comes the announcement of the 2023 Danger Awards and a brief chat with the winners. This year …
Pitch to an Agent
IF you have a completed manuscript or are well advanced on your book, BAD offers you the opportunity to talk to literary agent Gaby Naher for a short pitch session (5 minutes). If you’re at …
Pitch to a Publisher
IF you have a completed manuscript or are well advanced on your book, BAD offers you the opportunity to talk to top fiction publisher Beverley Cousins from Penguin Random House for a short pitch session …
Wild West? The True Story of Race, Class and Crime in Western Sydney
The western suburbs of Sydney have often been coloured by stories of crime, poverty and violence. But is the most culturally diverse region in Australia really just a melting pot of drug-dealings, drive-by shootings and …
Future-proofing Crime Fiction
What lies ahead for the crime novel in an era when humanity continues to be its own worst enemy? Will we have more of the same: rural noir, cozy crime, police procedurals, legal, psychological and …
Different podcast takes on true crime
Crime podcasts are a global hit with their popularity spanning millennials to boomers. What is it that attracts so many listeners? We talk to the creators of four true crime podcasts and find out what …
Why First Nations Writers don’t (often) Write Crime Fiction
First nations writers mostly avoid the crime genre. What is that? Too much experience of real crime? Different cultural concepts of crime and punishment? Three First Nations writers, Tony Birch, Nardi Simpson and the creator …
The Arts behind Bars
What is the value of arts programs behind bars? The speakers on this panel have direct experience of arts in the prison system including the visual arts, music and writing. They tell us why these …
Genre Benders
From Dorian Gray to Tom Ripley, there was a time when if LGBTIQA+ characters appeared in crime stories at all, it was invariably as the first body, the villain, the ‘morally dubious’ suspect or the …
Pentridge: Australia’s most infamous jail
In this new book in his prison series James Phelps explores Pentridge, Australia’s most notorious prison near Melbourne with two former inmates. Pentridge was closed in 1997 and now offers tours of a place which …