Crime Fiction Masterclass
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A Crime Fiction Masterclass with Sulari Gentill is on Saturday, December 5 from 10am to 2pm. Cost: $50 members, $35 concessional members, $115 non-members (includes 12 months of membership), $85 concessional non-members (includes 12 months of membership) The Meeting Room, Belconnen Arts Centre, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen. See: actwriters.org.au/events/upcoming-workshops-events.shtml#sularigentill
Write Your Book on a Weekend with Jan Cornall
At the weekend of December 5 and 6 from 10am to 4pm, learn everything you need to know about how to write your novel, memoir or non-fiction book. Cost: $250 members, $180 concessional members, $315 non-members (includes 12 months of membership), $280 concessional non-members (includes 12 months of membership). Venue: E Block Seminar Room, Gorman Arts Centre (formerly ACT Writers Centre workshop room). See: actwriters.org.au/events/upcoming-workshops-events.shtml#jancornall
CALIBRE PRIZE
Australian Book Review seeks entries in the 10th Calibre Prize for an outstanding non-fiction essay. All essayists writing in English are eligible, regardless of where they live. Essays must be between 3000 and 7000 words and must be written in English. Deadline: January 18, 2016. First prize: $5000 and publication in ABR. See: australianbookreview.com.au/prizes/calibre-prize/calibre-online-entry
What's on
December 6: At Muse, East Hotel, 69 Canberra Avenue, at 3.30pm, join Canberra Choral Society artistic director Tobias Cole and Muse's Paul Eldon to discuss the everlasting popularity of Handel's oratorio, Messiah. Tickets $10 includes a drink. Bookings: musecanberra.com.au
December 7: Ros Jackson will launch The Canonbury Tales, about people's romantic experiences and the effects they have had, by Don Aitkin AO at the Beyond Q bookshop at the Curtin shops at 5.30pm for 6pm.
6pm: Tales After Dark at Saffron Restaurant, 31 Giles Street, Kingston, features food, drink and actors reading short stories. Dinner and show from 6pm $70/$60 concession; show only at 7.30pm $35/$25. More details and bookings: talesafterdark.eventbrite.com.au
December 8: The final Poetry at the Gods reading at the Gods Cafe, ANU Arts Centre, features Beth Spencer from Terrigal and Kevin Brophy from Melbourne. Admission $10 waged, $5 unwaged. Dinner at 6pm. (optional). Reading at 7.30pm. Bookings: 6248 5538 or thegodscafe@gmail.com
December 8: Eleanor Limprecht's Long Bay is a fictionalised account of abortionist Rebecca Sinclair, who lived in Sydney in the early 20th century and in 1909 was transferred from Long Bay Women's Reformatory to the Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington for the birth of her child. Launch at Muse at 8pm. Tickets $10 includes a drink. Bookings: musecanberra.com.au
December 15: Frank Bongiorno will discuss his history book, The Eighties – the decade that included Australia's America's Cup win, the bicentenary of the arrival of the First Fleet and much more besides – with former Canberra Times editor Jack Waterford at Muse Canberra at 8pm. Tickets $10 includes a drink. Bookings: musecanberra.com.au
December 22: Diana Thompson's debut novel, Winterflood's Passion, is a piece of erotica set in the Southern Highlands. She will talk about it at Muse Canberra at 8pm.Tickets $10 includes a drink. Bookings: musecanberra.com.au
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