The 31st Scarlet Stiletto Awards for Australian women’s best short crime and mystery stories is offering a record $13,400 in prize money. The prompt this year is a photo of a scarlet stiletto, lying mysteriously abandoned in Melbourne’s streets outside a Chinese restaurant, next to an empty bottle of wine, and authors are encouraged to take it from there. The competition is open to all women, whether cisgender, transgender or intersex, who are citizens/residents of Australia.
Entries close 31 August; learn more and enter.