17th Scarlet Stiletto Awards

[Jacqui Horwood]

8pm Friday November 26, 2010

 

Nadine Garner presents the 17th Scarlet Stiletto Awards & talks to Sue Turnbull about her life in crime

 

Nadine Garner stars as Detective Senior Constable Jennifer Mapplethorpe in Seven’s drama City Homicide (2007-). Her other crime credits include The Bill, Stingers, Water Rats, Good Guys Bad Guys, Prisoner, and the telemovies, Heroes’ Mountain and The Feds: Deception. Garner first came to public attention in 1985, as Tamara Henderson in the Australian TV series, The Henderson Kids and then in her debut film, The Still Point. She has worked extensively in film, theatre and TV (both in Australia and the UK) and received awards and nominations for performances in each field. Also interested in writing, Garner wrote and performed in the stage work Birds Eye View in Sydney, 2002. In 2002-3 she played in a national tour of the musical Cabaret and received enthusiastic reviews— as well as two theatre awards— for her performance as Fraulein Kost/Fritzi. She was won the AFI Best Actress award in 1988 for her role in Mull.

 

This year, 145 short stories compete for the coveted Scarlet Stiletto trophy and $4750 in prize money. Prizes kindly donated by HarperCollins, Kill City, Readings Books & Music, Allen & Unwin, Olvar Wood Writers Retreat, Scriptworks, Benn’s Book Shop, Pulp Fiction Book Shop, Kerry Greenwood, Cate Kennedy, and Andrea Goldsmith. The awards are also supported by Spinifex Press.

 

Fashionista Sally Brown is the Scarlet Stilettos’ patron, offering an on-going supply of scarlet stilettos in which she’s been photographed in all over the world, including the peak of Mt Kilimanjaro. She will briefly introduce the awards with a story of one of the photos.

 

Bell’s Hotel, 157 Moray St., South Melbourne (cnr Coventry). Mel 57, G1. Try 112, 55 or St Kilda Road trams. Free on-street parking after 6pm.

$5/$10 (non-members) 10% discount from BennsBooks stall. ‘Brothers-in-Law’ welcome. Please book for both dinner (from 6.30pm) and event (8pm) as each table is being decorated by a flower-filled Scarlet Stiletto loaned by Sally Browne.

 

Bookings: Rose Mercer on 03 8060 2737 or [e-mail]

Info: Carmel Shute on 0412 569 356 or go to www.sistersincrime.org.au