The Melbourne Athenaeum Library will be closed from 4:00pm on Tuesday December 23. We will reopen at 10:00am Tuesday January 6.
We wish all our members a very festive holiday season.
Much of our city’s standing as Australia’s cultural capital can be traced back to the Melbourne Athenaeum and the role it played in the early promotion and development of music, visual arts, literature and theatre.
Dinuka McKenzie, Body in the Library winner Julia Harris, Melbourne Athenaeum vice president Barbara Gliddon and Amanda Hampson at the 2025 Scarlet Stiletto Awards Ceremony
Sisters in Crime, Scarlet Stiletto Awards
For 14 years, the Melbourne Athenaeum Library has proudly sponsored the Body in the Library category of the Scarlett Stiletto Awards, run by Sisters in Crime.
The crime and mystery short story competition was conceived in 1994 to discover and support new talent, and the Body in the Library category has grown to be one of the awards’ most popular.
The library has also hosted entertaining readings of winning entries by notable authors including Angela Savage, Susanna Lobez, Leigh Redhead and Jane Clifton.
More information on the Scarlet Stiletto Awards is at www.sistersincrime.org.au
Previous winning entries can be enjoyed here:
1st Prize: Julia Harris for Return or Die
2nd Prize: Natalie Conyer for The Ghost Detective
1st Prize: Naomi Manuell for The First Edition
2nd Prize: Katrina Watson for Crime and Management
1st Prize: Alison L. Robson for The Murder in the Library
2nd Prize: Kim Graham for Borrowed Time
1st Prize: Jem Tyley-Miller for The Surrogate
2nd Prize: Maeve James for Armchair Detective
1st Prize: Clare Fletcher for Death's Waiting Room
2nd Prize: Susan Green for Creativity Now!
1st Prize: Kristin Murdock for The Irony of Silence
2nd Prize: Fin J Ross for Murder by the Book
1st Prize: Blanche Clark for At Length I Would Be Avenged
2nd Prize: Kelly Gardiner for Death in the Catacombs
1st Prize: Fin J Ross for Deadly Ernestine
2nd Prize: Kat Clay for Lady Loveday Investigates
1st Prize: Narelle M Harris for Jane
2nd Prize: Natalie Conyer for In Memoriam
1st Prize: Jenny Spence for Caught on Camera
2nd Prize: Katie Mills for To Drive Out Evil Spirits
1st Prize: Natalie Conyer for The Book Club
2nd Prize: Fin J Ross for The VOTOS Solution
1st Prize: Dawn Farnham for The Body in the Library
2nd Prize: Aoife Clifford for The Case of the Vanishing Husband
1st Prize: Kath Harper for Brought to Book
2nd Prize: Aoife Clifford for QUIT
