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In this season's Reading for Writers, we get forensic with CSI: Crime Story Investigations. The best crime fiction is renowned for its tight plotting, compelling narrative, quick pace, and morally ambivalent characters. Writers across all genres can learn from the classics.

Featuring five of Australia's best crime writers speaking about the crime stories that influenced them, CSI: Crime Story Investigations will interrogate the nature of what makes a crime novel engaging and delve into the darkest parts of human nature. Ideal for crime writers and any writer looking at picking up the pace in their own work.  

Writers include:

  • Robert Gott on James M Cain's 'Double Indemnity' (Wednesday 13 February 2019)

  • Anna Snoekstra on Joyce Carol Oates's ' Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been' (Wednesday 13 March 2019)

  • Mark Brandi on MJ Hyland's 'This is How' (Wednesday 10 April 2019)

  • Emma Viskic on Peter Temple's 'An Iron Rose' (Wednesday 8 May 2019)

  • Sulari Gentill on 'Curtain: Poirot's Last Case' (Wednesday 12 June 2019)

When
13 February 2019 - 6:00 to 12 June 2019 - 7:30
Event Fee(s)
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Member A$220.00
Concession Member A$180.00
Non-Member A$280.00
Donation A$1.00
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Course Code SM5EI1902CSW
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Region Melbourne (CBD)
With Crime Writers
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