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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]

Publications

  • MacColl, Mary-Rose; Brissenden collection (1996), No safe place, Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 1864481749
  • MacColl, Mary-Rose; Brissenden collection (1999), Angels in the architecture, Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-1-86508-061-1
  • MacColl, Mary-Rose (2003), Killing Superman, Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-1-86508-998-0
  • MacColl, Mary-Rose (2013), In falling snow, London, Allison & Busby, ISBN 978-0-7490-1338-7
  • MacColl, Mary-Rose (2015), Swimming home, Crows Nest, New South Wales, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-1-925268-36-2
  • MacColl, Mary-Rose (2017), For a girl: a true story of secrets, motherhood and hope, Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-1-76029-523-3

References

  1. ^ MacColl, Mary-Rose. "No Safe Place". Trove Books, National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Past Winners". Australian/Vogel Literary Awards. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2017 Peoples Choice Award". Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  4. ^ Johnson, Susan (30 April 2017). "Mary-Rose MacColl memoir about sexual abuse". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  5. ^ MacColl, Mary-Rose (2008). "The Birth Wars". Griffith Review (22, Summer /9).
  6. ^ MacColl, Mary-Rose (2012). "The Water of Life". Griffith Review (38, Summer).
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