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 Samuel Bernard 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 non-fiction publisher (TBC) for a short pitch session (5 minutes). If you’re at …
View to a thrill
Experience three nailbiting stories in different settings but with equal tension. Michelle Prak’s The Rush is a closed circle thriller where the weather closes in on a group in an isolated location, but the rain …
A Real Cop Reads Crime Fiction
Crime writers make up imaginary cops but what happens when a real cop comes face to face with a fictional creation? Former Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin who has investigated more than one real murder talks to …
Women and children
Tony Birch is one of Australia’s best storytellers. His new book explores the lives of women and children, justice and injustice through the eyes of a boy. Where can Joe’s Aunty Oona get help when …
No escape: Closed circle mysteries
If you thought that closed circle mysteries had died with Agatha Christie, think again. They will never die although plenty of people do in the books in this session. Benjamin Stevenson’s new Everyone on this …
Fresh Blood: Small town crime
Not the country or the outback, not the city or the suburbs but a small town. Why are small towns – some real, some imaginary – growth areas as settings of crime fiction? The three …
Whose law and who’s it for?
What happens when a system of laws is imposed on existing but very different systems for making sure justice is done but those existing structures are not taken into account, as has happened throughout Australia? …