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New England Crime Bake 2008 conference Guest of Honor will be award-winning, best-selling author Harlan Coben. This year, the conference will be held November 14-16 (not Veteran's Day weekend) at the Hilton in Dedham, MA. More details coming soon at: www.crimebake.org.  Al Blanchard Short Crime Fiction Contest 2008 With the holidays upon us, many of you are probably consumed with thoughts of food and shopping, but don't forget crime! Especially since the Al Blanchard Short Crime Fiction Award contest has just re-opened. We on the awards committee are looking forward to another great contest in 2008. The award, sponsored by the New England Crime Bake Committee, and given in memory of Al Blanchard, co-chair of the first Crime Bake Conferences, NEMWA President, and member of Sisters in Crime, consists of $100 cash award, publication in Level Best Books' sixth Crime Fiction anthology, and admission to the Crime Bake Conference.
The guidelines are as follows:
The deadline is April 30, 2008, and there is no entry fee. Our own Roberta Isleib was elected president of Sisters in Crime International at Bouchercon 2007. Congratulations, Roberta! |
Scarlet Letters is the New England branch of the international organization, Sisters in Crime.
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Benefits of Joining NE Sisters in Crime Check out our Meetings page for the full list of upcoming events available to members. In New England, we meet four times a year (and stay in touch all the time via email). In addition to our regular meetings, we offer online courses, special seminars, publish our own newsletter, She Dunnit!, and have our own listserv. To join the NE/SinC members-only discussion list, send a message to NewEnglandSinc@yahoogroups.com and please include your full name in the body of the message. We also run a Speakers Bureau, through which booksellers and librarians can contact mystery writers for panels and other events. Most of all, we network and share information in a mutually supportive, non-competitive organization devoted to improving mystery fiction for all of us. Together with N.E. Mystery Writers of America, we run the New England Crime Bake. Check us out our Join page for more info on becoming a member of New England Chapter Sisters in Crime. Or, if you already know you'd like to join us, simply print out the Membership Form and send it in. |
In 1986, women wrote 40% of the mysteries and got 15% of the reviews in the New York Times. Sisters in Crimewas founded to "combat discrimination against women in the mystery field, to raise awareness of the contributions of female authors, and to promote the professional advancement of women who write mysteries." We are authors, agents, booksellers, editors, librarians, critics, and readers. Brothers in Crime are welcome.
Founders included best-selling author Sara Paretsky and Kate Mattes, owner of a Cambridge literary fixture, Kate's Mystery Books. The national organization now boasts over 3000 members, including authors, fans, librarians, booksellers, and pre-published writers. The New England chapter, 150 members strong, holds educational meetings for its members four times annually. The chapter also offers a Speakers Bureau for libraries and other interested organizations.
