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Nikki Lee Taylor won the 31st Scarlet Stiletto Award for “Lilly Pilly, Don't Be Silly.” She is a former journalist, whose work around PTSD was recognised by the Journalism Media & Storytelling Awards panel. She is currently on a hiatus from work to pursue her goal of becoming a full-time author. Her novels include two set in Philadelphia, The Secrets We Keep and The Truth We Tell. She describes her latest, The Alibi set in Newcastle, as “a murderous love letter to my home town.” When Nikki is not writing, she is an avid photographer and competes in various disciplines of canine sports with her cocker spaniel Saxon.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Candice Graham won the Best Environmental Story in the 2012 Scarlet Stiletto Awards with “Fallen Angel”. Back then, she was studying her Masters in Clinical Neuropsychology. The following year she took out First Prize, Since then, Candice has spent many rewarding years working as a psychologist, primarily with children and young adults. Sadly, Candice has stepped back from her work as a psychologist due to severe pain from endometriosis. She believes the time feels right, however, to start writing the multitude of novels brimming in her mind… Send your feedback to [email protected].
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Robyn McWilliam had been writing crime short stories for years, placing in Queen of Crime Awards and being published in anthologies. Winning a Scarlet Stiletto Award in 2012 for “Nursing a Suspicion” for Best Investigative Story was the pinnacle of her success in stories. She went on to publish a crime novel, Malevolent Desire, on Amazon in 2015.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Claire McKenna won 3rd prize in the 2012 Scarlet Stiletto Awards in “The Autumn Dog Cannot Live to Spring”. Hailing from the remote outer suburban wilderness of Melbourne, Claire is a short story writer, novelist, adventurer and urban explorer up to no good. She is currently writing a follow-up fantasy series that aims to be more confusing and confronting than her last.
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More info here: https://www.clairemckenna.net/
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Best Investigative story, 2013
Sandi Wallace dreamed of being a crime writer from around the age of six. Her first big win for a crime story was for “Silk Versus Sierra” in 2013, and on the Awards night, she landed a publisher for her debut crime novel… the beginning of her dream come true.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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In a world where the neutralisation of emotions is compulsory, an enforcement officer risks everything when she starts to succumb to her feelings.
2nd Prize Scarlet Stiletto Award and Cross Genre Award
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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“Brought to Book” won Kath Harper the Body in the Library First Prize in 2012. Kath grew up in a family of word nerds, and worked as a nanny/housemaid, fruit packer, customer service officer and school teacher before finding her niche as an editor, indexer and proofreader. She has won or been highly commended in a number of story-writing competitions, including the Body in the Library and Malice Domestic categories of the Scarlet Stiletto Awards. The isolation of freelance work drew her to community theatre; she has written and/or performed in several plays. Now retired, she continues to write short stories, and during COVID lockdowns entertained her grandsons with a fantasy adventure serial.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Much Ado About Nunning” by Western Australian author, Helen Iles, won the prize for Best Film Idea in 2012. Helen writes crime fiction, adult fiction, young adult fiction, textbooks, poetry, and children’s picture books.
Helen has been published locally and internationally. Her novel, Dark Secrets was long-listed for the Davitt Award 2019. She has won the Bronze Quill three times, the National Horror Writers Award, the Best Film Script Idea in the Scarlet Stiletto competition, and numerous other national awards. Helen is also an Editor, teaches Creative Writing, manages Linellen Press, a small publishing house south of Perth, and is a children’s book illustrator.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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“Fish for Freedom” won the Malice Domestic prize in the 2012 Scarlet Stiletto Awards for WA author Sarah Evans. She has since had many short stories and novels published both in Australia and overseas. Last year her crime series was optioned for TV.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Aoife Clifford’s story, “Quit”, took out the award for funniest short story in the 2012 Scarlet Stiletto Awards and was runner up in the Body in the Library Award. When Aoife won the Scarlet Stiletto in 2007, she was at home with two small children, suffering terrible morning sickness with what was to be her third. Now her eldest has left home and her fourth crime novel came out in 2024.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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At the time of winning the Scarlet Stiletto Young Writers’ Award in 2007, Jane Blechynden was a ten-year-old schoolgirl whose biggest concern was whether she should experiment with a side fringe. The Sisters in Crime award inspired Jane to continue writing, and she went on to win the Tim Winton award in 2009. Although Jane is still an avid reader, her literary career is now focused on writing exemplary patient notes in her role as a doctor.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Lesley Truffle won 3rd prize in the Scarlet Stiletto Awards in 2010 for “A Man of Fashion”. She was then an aspiring novelist, then walking the beach at 3am plotting a story about women behaving badly. Two of her novels, Hotel du Barry and The Scandalous Life of Sasha Torte, have been published by Harper Collins in Australia and also in Spain, Italy and Germany. Lesley was born in London but came out to Australia when young. She has worked as a teacher, photographer, hotel maid, fringe actor and in art galleries, nightclubs and minimal wage jobs too ghastly to mention. She is currently living on an island and working on a new manuscript.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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“Still Life” won Dianne Gray the second prize in the 2000 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. She has taken out several category awards. She has since published four novels and a book of award-winning short stories. She has won numerous national and international writing awards and loves nothing better than a good old-fashioned murder mystery. She lives in peaceful bliss on a sugar cane farm in regional Queensland where she tests out new stories on baby goats, kookaburras, old dogs, and chickens. When she's not writing or endlessly procrastinating, she can be found renovating her 140-year-old farmhouse.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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“Shifty Business” by the late Liz Cameron took out 3rd Prize in the 2002 Scarlet Stiletto Awards and was selected for inclusion in Scarlet Stiletto: The First Cut, a selection of stories from the first thirteen years of the competition, published in 2007 by Mira and launched by Sigrid Thornton.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Bronwyn Blake was a new writer when “Dead Water” won an award for Best Lesbian Protagonist in the 1995 Scarlet Stiletto Awards . . . an exciting boost for an unconfident beginner. She has since had 13 books published in hard copy and as e-books, including Nick Riley’s Ninth Life for Lothian’s Crime Waves Series, which won the Sister’s Davitt Award for Junior Crime, 2002. A number of her books have been chosen by CBCA as Notable Books, and are used as texts in schools Australia wide. She writes for Adults and Young Adults, fiction and non-fiction, with her books primarily about people living in rural or remote setting.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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“After Azaria” was Ann’s first ever crime story. Receiving a Scarlet Stiletto, Best Procedural award for it was a fantastic motivator for writing more short crime and for Dangerous Devotions, a novel, published by Clan Destine Press in 2023. Ann has recently founded Rocking Boat Books – which runs creative writing workshops for, and publishes children’s books authored by, people with neurodiversity and other literacy and social challenges.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Her story in verse - Froth and Trouble or Sun Hill Blues -was entered in the Scarlet Stiletto competition back in the days when everyone watched the same TV shows because streaming services and ‘catch-up ‘ did not yet exist. When the plots of a popular prime time series called The Bill began to focus on the private lives of the characters instead of crime many fans were annoyed and Margaret's story is a comment on this.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Louise Connor's story, “Divine Intervention”, won third prize in the 2nd Scarlet Stiletto Awards in 1995. A founding member of Sisters in Crime, Louise has twice won 3rd prize in the Scarlet Stiletto awards. Her working life was mostly spent as a ratbag, rabble-rouser in the union movement, working mostly for the MEAA, which represents workers in the media, film and television, theatre workers and events staff. Now she's retired, she really has no excuse for not writing more crime fiction (apart from doting grandmother duties).
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Kylie had always wanted to be a writer, but it wasn’t until winning the Dorothy Porter Award for her story in verse, “Poppies”, that she realised it was something she could actually pursue. Since then, along with working full time and raising five children, Kylie has had success with several short stories, and had two books published. Kylie is currently working on a new novel and a new true crime book.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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Inga Simpson entered the Scarlet Stiletto while living in Brisbane during her second year of studying creative writing. Two prizes for one story and the publication of “Operation Bluewater” in Scarlet Stiletto Uncut, gave her the (somewhat misguided) belief that she could shift careers, from government researcher to writer. It was nearly a decade before she made another cent from writing, but Inga has gone on to publish six novels and a nature-memoir, all of which have been short or long-listed for literary awards, including the Miles Franklin and Stella Prize. Her latest.
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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez
Co-producer: Carmel Shute
Production Manager: Tim Coy
Graphic Designer: Caz Brown
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