If you have RSVP'd to attend the event via zoom. Please join the workshop via this link on Saturday:

WestWords is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: BAD Crime Writing Workshop
Time: Aug 20, 2022 02:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

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"Every city has its own personality and crime fiction is as much about the place as it is about the crimes. Its time we got to know Western Sydney better, to read new stories set there that share new perspectives and different points of view, that introduce us to different characters coming to us from a new generation of writers using the lens of crime fiction to reveal what Australia today is all about." Andy Muir

Western Crimes

Thinking about submitting a crime story to the BAD Western Sydney anthology? Come along for a hybrid workshop where crime authors Loraine Peck (The Second Son) and Andy Muir (Something for Nothing) talk about their writing lives and how to write a crime story. Bring your ideas, your questions, and your sharpest pencil ready to participate in a workshop with a difference, one aimed at providing you with enough inspiration and a set of tips to craft your own crime story.
The BAD workshop will take place on 20th August, 2.00-3.30pm, at WestWords Centre for Writing (41 Hunter Street Parramatta)
You can RSVP to attend in person, or via zoom. (Zoom link will be sent a few days out from workshop)

Loraine Peck started her career as magician’s assistant in Sydney. After being sawn-in-half one too many times, she switched to dealing blackjack on the Gold Coast. Bartending and slinging lobsters in the US led to a sales job in the movie industry, before she was propelled into a career in marketing in Australia, the Middle East, Asia and the US. Consumed by a desire to write crime thrillers, she decided to learn how to write the kind of book she loves to read. Her first novel, THE SECOND SON, won the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction (Australian Crime Writers Association), was shortlisted for the 2021 Danger Award (BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival) and two Davitt Awards: Best Crime Fiction and Best Debut Crime Fiction (Sisters in Crime). She is currently hard at work on the sequel. Loraine and her husband spend their time between Sydney and the Gold Coast.

With credits on a range of television series, Andy Muir fell for crime while working on the writing team for the hit franchise Underbelly. Nominated for an Australian Writers Guild Award for Underbelly Squizzy, he also adapted that TV series into a novel. He is currently working on Hiding to Nothing, the follow-up to Something for Nothing, which will be released next year. Andy spoke to our Membership Intern, Alexander Wells, about inspiration, his love for Newcastle, and his experience bringing his unique style of ‘thong noir’ to the Bloody Scotland international crime writing festival.

For more information on the anthology submission click here
To enter a submission to the anthology click here
Questions?: admin@westwords.com.au or 1800WestWords (1800 937 896)

BAD Western Sydney is a partnership between
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival and WestWords, Western Sydney’s Literature Development Organisation.