2026 Festival
Speaker Profile
Laura McCluskey
Laura McCluskey is a writer, editor and actor. She is a co-founder of Sibylline Films and Three Fates Theatre Company, and has performed across theatre, film and television. The Wolf Tree, her first novel in a crime series featuring Scottish detectives George Lennox and Richie Stewart, was published by HarperCollins in 2025. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne.
Meet The Crime Writers
Wednesday April 22
Sorrento Portsea RSL
3.00pm
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60 mins
Adrian Hyland and Laura McCluskey with Seth Robinson
Edge Of My Seat... Creating suspense and surprise in modern fiction
Friday April 24
Ellen Grant Hall
12.00pm
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60 mins
Laura McCluskey, Jock Serong and Anna Snoekstra with Charlotte Guest
How do writers create page-turning suspense for their readers? And how difficult is it to create tension around The Big Reveal?