News and events
2024 News and Events
July 18 — Noir at the Bar, Blues Bar, Harrogate, UK.
May 9-12 — CrimeFest, Bristol, UK.
March-April — research trip home to Western Australia.
March 5 — Pen to Print online event with Georgina Brown from the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation.
March 1 — Bay Tales Noir at the Bay, Whitley Bay, UK.
2023 News
October 18 — No Country for Girls wins the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize Best Published Novel Award.
August 5 — No Country for Girls is shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction.
July 25 — No Country for Girls is shortlisted for the Sisters in Crime Australia Davitt Awards.
July 21 — No Country for Girls is longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize.
June 1 — No Country for Girls is shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
May 12 — No Country for Girls is shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger.
May 11 — No Country for Girls is longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
April 27 — UK Paperback Publication Day for No Country for Girls.
April 22 — No Country for Girls is longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger.
February 20 — No Country for Girls is longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.
2023 Events
December 6-9 — Newcastle Noir, Newcastle, UK.
October 18 — Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing awards ceremony at The Royal Geographical Society, London.
July 20 — Noir at the Bar, Blues Bar, Harrogate, UK.
July 12 — Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize shortlist party at Stanfords Bookshop, London.
June 21 — National Crime Reading Month: an evening with Emma Styles at Waterstones Swindon.
June 6 — Pride in Writing: claiming a new queer tradition at Waterstones Piccadilly, London. Celebrating LGBTQ+ authors with the Hachette Pride network.
May 11-14 — CrimeFest, Bristol, UK.
2022 News and Events
September 16 — Crime in the Spotlight at the 10th Anniversary Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival.
September 8 — The Price of Paradise. Kicking off the Noirwich Crime Writing Festival with Tom Benn and Emma Bamford.
August 30 — Publication Day! No Country for Girls lands in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.
July 23 — the New Blood panel at Theakston’s Crime.
July 21 — Publication Day for No Country for Girls in the UK.
March 31 — No Country for Girls is selected for Val McDermid’s New Blood Panel at the 2022 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.
2018-2021 News
March 2021 — Announcement in The Bookseller: No Country for Girls to be published by Sphere in 2022.
November 2020 — No Country for Girls wins the Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award.
September 2020 — submit the manuscript of No Country for Girls to the course assessors for marking.
July 2020 — finish first draft!
February 2019 — research trip home to Western Australia.
September 2018 — start writing No Country for Girls on the Crime Fiction MA course at the University of East Anglia.