Bone Memories longlisted for a 2023 Davitt Award

Sally Piper

18 July 2023

BONE MEMORIES has been longlisted for a Sisters in Crime 2023 Davitt Award in the Adult Novel category.

Now in its 23rd year, the Davitt Awards celebrate Australian female crime writers. The shortlist will be announced in late July. To see all those titles longlisted across the four categories of the awards visit the Sisters in Crime website.

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Saturday 10 October…mark the date in your diaries! This is always a fun day with many bookshops putting on special events, hosting stalls and offering giveaways, all in the name of celebrating books, reading and community. #lybd2026

I’m super excited to be hitting the road soon to visit libraries in regional NSW where I will be talking about my novel PEOPLE LIKE US and presenting my Witnessing Landscapes: Nature Writing Masterclass. A huge shout-out to the libraries I’m visiting for being so helpful and enthusiastic about me coming to their local community to talk books and writing. Nearly all the events are free but you will need to register for them. There is a link in my bio that takes you to an Events page on my website which lists the individual links for the author talks and the masterclass across each of the libraries. 🛻📚 @narrabrishirecouncil @tamworthcitylibrary @waggalibrary @bathurstlibrary @uqpbooks

What makes the Brisbane lit-scene so special? What does literary collegiality look like? What have bookshops like @avidreader and @riverbendbooks contributed to our careers? How has our writing altered the way we see our city or our state? Come along and hear the answers to these questions and a whole bunch more. It should be fun! Tickets can be booked through the link in my bio. @dranitaheiss @mirandiriwoe @kkneen

A nest, largish, made of coarse vines so not very cosy, quite drafty and possibly not completed before being blown from the tree. Not sure what species of bird.🐦‍⬛

A packed house for the launch of THE WEIGHT OF WITNESS @loftwestend and hosted by @avidreader tonight, an anthology written by Australian and New Zealand health care workers about their experiences serving in Gaza and published by @readerswritersagainstgenocide. The conversation was a beautiful tribute to the resilience, gratitude and generosity of the Palestinian people and the importance of words; that criticizing a genocide is not antisemitic and how threatening and silencing people who speak up doesn’t alter the truth of the ongoing genocide being committed against the Palestinian people.

More evidence that they’re on the move, this one shed in the bay leaf tree 🐍💚 #carpetsnake

A lovely visit to the good folk @paperchainbookstore while in Canberra. Signed copies of PEOPLE LIKE US instore now. @uqpbooks #peoplelikeusnovel

Thank you @thebookcowkingston and to the wonderful Canberra audience for your warm welcome, thoughtful questions and shared conversation last night. It warmed my heart to see you were all as passionate about the story of Tina in PEOPLE LIKE US as I am. And a very special thank you to @karen_viggers - I knew you’d be the perfect conversation partner for the event. It was an absolute joy to sit down with you and talk about my novel, its characters and the themes it addresses. If you’d like to hear Karen interview other authors, then check out her and @irma.gold’s podcast @secretsfromthegreenroom. They’re literary legends as interviewers of authors, and you can listen back to just how legendary on their free podcast at wherever you listen to your pods. @uqpbooks #peoplelikeusnovel #housingisahumanright

Ground feeding male Red-rumped Parrot.

Snake trails on the trails today 🐍