Learn the art of creating gripping crime thrillers with Sulari Gentill.
About this Event
Crime Fiction has always attracted a large and dedicated readership from all age groups. It has inhabited bookshelves in the form of both pulp fiction and literary-award-winners. As a genre, it continues to evolve in accord with new values and concerns. The crime novel has the particular capacity to embody and reflect the social, historical and cultural contexts in which it is set, and to hold a mirror to the prejudices and injustices of the time. From Enid Blyton’s Famous Five, to Peter Corris’ Cliff Hardy and Peter Temple’s Jack Irish, the tropes of Crime Fiction are consistent and consistently remade.
This workshop will introduce the underlying structure of the traditional crime novel and consider the ways that established tropes and reader expectations may be tested and twisted through the use of character and plot.
About the Expert
Sulari Gentill - Author of the award-winning and best-selling Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, the Greek mythology adventure series The Hero Trilogy, and winner of the Best Crime award at the 2018 Ned Kelly Awards, Crossing the Lines.
Award-winning author Sulari Gentill set out to study astrophysics, graduated in law, and then abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts.
Born in Sri Lanka, Sulari learned to speak English in Zambia, grew up in Brisbane and now lives in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW where, with her historian husband, she grows French black truffles, cares for a variety of animals and raises two wild colonial boys. Sulari also paints, but only well enough to know she should write, preferably in her pyjamas.
About the Venue
The Harry Hartog ANU store is located just beside the Kambri Precinct. There are an array of cafes serving coffee and lunch options close by, and they are all open on Saturdays (tea, coffee, hot water, milk and biscuits are provided by the ACTWC.) The Harry Hartog team are happy to have you place some food in their fridge, and use their microwave, should you wish to bring your lunch. Toilets are located just outside the Harry Hartog store, just a few metres away in the Kambri building.
The closest parking to the store is an underground carpark directly below Harry Hartog (with stairs or public lift access to ground level. Staff at Harry Hartog can provide swipe-pass lift access from ground level to the upper level of their store, where the workshop will be held.) To find the underground parking, drive down Kingsley Street (off Barry Drive) and follow signage to the Drill Hall Gallery/Drill Hall Gallery parking. Follow Kingsley Street straight down to its culmination in an underground carpark and you will have the correct one. We recommend this parking option for people who cannot or do not wish to cover much ground to the workshop venue. It costs $5 for the whole day on a Saturday. Parking at Llewellyn Hall is a short stroll away.