Mary-Rose MacColl | |
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Born | 1961 (age 62–63) |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | Queensland University of Technology |
Website | |
mary-rosemaccoll |
Mary-Rose MacColl (born 1961) is an Australian novelist. [1]
MacColl's first novel, No Safe Place, was shortlisted for the 1995 Australian/Vogel Literary Award. [2] In the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards, she won The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award for her novel Swimming Home. She was nominated again in the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards in The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award for For a Girl. [3]
MacColl is a graduate in journalism from the Queensland University of Technology. [4] She has contributed two essays to the Griffith Review. Firstly, "The Birth Wars" [5] for the issue, MoneySexPower, and more recently, " The Water of Life" for The Novella Project/Annual Fiction Edition. [6]
At the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards, MacColl was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship valued at $15,000. [7]
Mary-Rose MacColl | |
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Born | 1961 (age 62–63) |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | Queensland University of Technology |
Website | |
mary-rosemaccoll |
Mary-Rose MacColl (born 1961) is an Australian novelist. [1]
MacColl's first novel, No Safe Place, was shortlisted for the 1995 Australian/Vogel Literary Award. [2] In the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards, she won The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award for her novel Swimming Home. She was nominated again in the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards in The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award for For a Girl. [3]
MacColl is a graduate in journalism from the Queensland University of Technology. [4] She has contributed two essays to the Griffith Review. Firstly, "The Birth Wars" [5] for the issue, MoneySexPower, and more recently, " The Water of Life" for The Novella Project/Annual Fiction Edition. [6]
At the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards, MacColl was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship valued at $15,000. [7]