Scarlet Stiletto Bites

Margaret Bevege’s PhD thesis was published as Behind Barbed Wire by UQP in 1993. She had articles in Women, Class and History and Worth Her Salt, which she co-edited. Turning to fiction. she won the 2001 Malice Domestic prize, reprinted in Scarlet Stiletto- The First Cut in 2007. Two other stories were printed in the NSW Queen of Crime Anthologies and from one of these she developed the main character of the three-volume Detective Ludowski’s Casebook (2001-03) which enjoyed modest.

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Vikki Petraitis has written 18 books, including her best-selling book The Frankston Murders about serial killer Paul Denyer. In 2023, she released a podcast of the same name which topped charts around the world and helped change the law to keep Denyer in prison. Vikki’s first fiction, The Unbelieved, won the inaugural Allen & Unwin Crime Fiction Prize and the Readers’ Choice Davitt Award. The sequel is on the way. Vikki’s Casefile Presents podcasts have been downloaded millions of times. Her next podcast is called The Unthinkable and is due for release in 2024.

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Co-producer: Carmel Shute

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Graphic Designer: Caz Brown

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Aoife Clifford is the author of the best-selling literary crime novels, Second Sight, highly commended in the Davitt Awards, All These Perfect Strangers, longlisted for both the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year and the Voss Literary Prize; and When We Fall which was shortlisted for best crime novel in both the Ned Kelly Awards and the Davitt Awards. She has been shortlisted for the UK Crime Association’s Debut Dagger and has won the Scarlet Stiletto and the S.D. Harvey Award among other prizes. Her latest novel is It Takes a Town.

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Sarah Evans is a seasoned writer of crime and her stories are usually inspired by true events. “The Bodyguard” and “Cold Comfort” are no exception. The idea for “The Bodyguard” materialized after Sarah read a magazine piece on a forensic scientist and “Cold Comfort” was based on a curmudgeonly farmer from the back blocks of WA. The Scarlet Stiletto Award has been an integral part of Sarah’s writing journey and her stories and novels have been published in Australia and overseas. Last year her Eve Rock crime series was optioned for TV.

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Apart from writing humorous family poetry, Anne had little writing experience. She won awards for two short stories at U3A and joined a creative writing group with Fin Ross who suggested her students enter a Scarlet Stiletto short story competition. She was fortunate to win two categories with her story Out of the Dark in 2011. One of these prizes was a mentorship at Olvar Wood Writers Retreat and these inspired her to write two young adult stories and an illustrated children’s book. Recently Anne has been dealing with sickness in her family and writing has been put on the back burner for a while. She hopes to return to it soon.

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Vicky Daddo lives in Hazelwood South, Victoria and is President of the Gippsland Writers Network and a Regional Ambassador for Writers Victoria. Her stories have appeared in The Big Issue, Award Winning Australian Writing and other anthologies. She has placed in competitions including the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction, the Hope Prize, the Scarlet Stilettos and the FAW National Literary Awards.

Her unpublished novels have been selected for QWC/Hachette Manuscript Development, and long-listed for Adaptable and MsLexia Novel Competition. She is currently doing the Faber Academy Writing a Novel program.

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Since completing this short story, Mel Salomon completed her PhD, and moved to the United States where she now works as a medical writer. She has 2 children, a great husband and a newfound passion for long distance running. In her spare time she still enjoys writing poetry.

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THIS STORY CONTAINS DETAILS OF CRUELTY TO A CHILD AND MAY BE TRIGGERING.

Marguerite Johnson is Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland. She began creative writing, literary essays, and public opinion pieces in 2010, following a break from academia as a result of cancer. She continues to combine research with other writing practices. She is a contributor to The Conversation and a regular guest on radio and podcasts. In 2017 she was named the Australian Book Review inaugural Gender Fellow winner for her essay on Picnic at Hanging Rock. Some of her creative writing, inspired by Greek mythology, appear in the journal, Arion. She currently lives on the Greek island of Lesvos.

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When Sarah won the Scarlet Stiletto Award for the Best Young Writer in 2011, she was in Year 7 at Caulfield Grammar School. Though she had been passionate about writing since she was young, winning the award boosted her confidence and inspired her to pursue a career in the literary industry. Sarah has since hosted author events, run a successful YA book club, interned for the Melbourne Writers Festival, Writers Victoria, Hardie Grant Egmont and Penguin, and worked as a bookseller. Her story "A Little Overboard" was included in the anthology "This Fresh Hell", published by Clandestine Press last year. Sarah is currently working on a YA sci-fi novel set in Melbourne.

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Mary Evans wrote Stage Fright while she was being homeschooled by her mother, crime writer Sarah Evans, who encouraged Mary to write and submit her works into competitions from an early age. Winning Scarlet Stiletto was a great boost to her confidence and encouraged her to continue scribbling. Mary wrote short stories, poetry and, eventually, songs. She’s now a singer-songwriter and performs her whimsical songs and murder ballads under her professional stage name Mary Myfanwy

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Concept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna Lobez

Co-producer: Carmel Shute

ProductionManager: Tim Coy

Graphic Designer: Caz Brown

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