The Death of Dora Black

Lainie Anderson From 2006 to 2023, Lainie was a columnist with Adelaide’s Sunday Mail. In 2019, her novel Long Flight Home was published by Wakefield Press. Her latest book is The Death of Dora Black, a historical murder mystery inspired by the extraordinary life of South Australia’s Kate Cocks, the first policewoman in the British Empire employed on the same salary and with the same powers of arrest as men, and some of the cracking cases she solved. 

Jane Howard is a Walkley award-winning journalist and Arts and Culture Editor of The Conversation. Her writing has appeared in publications including the ABC, The Guardian, Meanjin and The Sydney Morning Herald, and she sits on the board of Writers SA. Jane’s artistic work explores writing in collaborative digital spaces; and her research work has primarily looked at the status of women in the arts. She is currently writing her first book.