Frankie McMillan explained

Frankie McMillan
Birth Date:1950
Birth Place:Christchurch
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:New Zealand

Frankie McMillan is a writer of poetry, fiction and flash fiction. She lives in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Biography

Frankie McMillan was born in Christchurch in 1950.[1] She studied education and sociology at the University of Canterbury. In the 1970s, she lived off the land with her young family up the Parapara Valley in Golden Bay, originally in an old shack with no electricity, a wood range and solar panels, and then in a replacement house on the same land.[2] [3]

In 1999 she studied for a MA in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington and later studied theatre at Sydney University.

Her first collection of poetry, Dressing for the Cannibals, was launched in August 2009 as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations for Christchurch City Library.[4] [5] Her work has been published in Best New Zealand Poems[6] [7] as well as on online poetry blogs[8] [9] and in journals including Turbine, Snorkel, JAAM, Trout, takahē, Sweet Mammalian and Cincinnati Review (US).[10] [11] [12] [13] It has also appeared in Poems in the Waiting Room[14] and in anthologies such as The Unbelievable Lightness of Eggs (Hallard, 2006), Essential NZ Short Stories (Vintage, 2009) and Best New Zealand Fiction Anthologies (Vintage 2008 and 2009).

In 2016, following the publication of My Mother and the Hungarians and other small fictions, she was invited to Hungary as the guest of the Hungarian Embassy in Wellington, to attend a commemorative event of the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.[15]

She lives in Christchurch and teaches creative writing at the Hagley Writers’ Institute.[16] [17]

Awards and Prizes 

Frankie McMillan was awarded the Creative New Zealand Todd New Writers' Bursary in 2005.[18]

She won the 2009 New Zealand Poetry International Competition[19] and the 2013 and 2015 New Zealand Flash Fiction Competition.[20] [21] [22]

In 2014, she was the recipient of the Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing at the University of Canterbury.[23]

She received the University of Auckland residency at the Michael King Writers Centre in 2017,[24] and the NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship in 2019.[25] [26]

My Mother and the Hungarians and other small fictions (Canterbury University Press, 2016) was longlisted for the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[27] The Father of Octopus Wrestling and other small fictions (Canterbury University Press, 2019) was named as one of the ten best New Zealand fiction books of 2019 by The Spinoff.[28]

Bibliography 

Poetry

Short fiction

As co-editor

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: McMillan, Frankie. November 2016. Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. 7 January 2020.
  2. Web site: Back to nature for city poet Frankie McMillan. Eleven. Beck. 18 April 2015. Stuff. 7 January 2020.
  3. Web site: Out West: Golden Bay hippy life in the 70s inspires writer. Hindmarsh. Gerard. 5 October 2019. Stuff. 8 January 2020.
  4. Web site: An Interview with Frankie McMillan. Jones. Tim. 10 September 2009. Books in the Trees. 8 January 2020.
  5. Web site: Poetry at the Library. 18 August 2009. Christchurch City Libraries. 8 January 2020.
  6. Web site: Piece by Piece. McMillan. Frankie. 2012. Best New Zealand Poems. 8 January 2020.
  7. Web site: Grinding the wind. McMillan. Frankie. 2015. Best New Zealand Poems. 8 January 2020.
  8. Web site: "Hour glass" and "at night my dead mother appears wanting soup" by Frankie McMillan. Lowe. Helen. 17 March 2015. Tuesday Poem. 8 January 2020.
  9. Web site: Tuesday Poem: "My Father, The Oceanographer" by Frankie McMillan. 17 January 2012. Helen Lowe... on anything, really. 8 January 2020.
  10. Web site: Man Overboard. McMillan. Frankie. 2018. Turbine Kapohau. 8 January 2020.
  11. Web site: Sweet Mammalian #2 is sweet indeed – Where do I start? Every click comes up poetry trumps. Green. Paula. 1 June 2015. NZ Poetry Shelf. 8 January 2020.
  12. Web site: Issue Two Contents. Sweet Mammalian. 8 January 2020.
  13. Web site: Frankie McMillan. takahē magazine. 8 January 2020.
  14. Web site: Winter's on the way. 26 May 2016. Poems in the Waiting Room (NZ). 8 January 2020.
  15. Web site:
    1. nzbookshopday I recommend buying Frankie McMillan's breathtaking small fictions: My Mother and the Hungarians
    . Green. Paula. 29 October 2016. NZ Poetry Shelf. 8 January 2020.
  16. Web site: Staff. 17 December 2019. Hagley Writers' Institute. 7 January 2020.
  17. Web site: Interview with Frankie McMillan. 3 February 2016. Nod Ghosh. 7 January 2020.
  18. Web site: Frankie McMillan. ANZL: Academy of New Zealand Literature. 7 January 2020.
  19. Web site: 2009 Poetry Competition Results. 2 October 2016. New Zealand Poetry Society. 7 January 2020.
  20. Web site: Frankie McMillan - Playful Poetry. 1 September 2013. RNZ. 7 January 2020.
  21. Web site: National Flash Fiction Day Winning Stories. July 2013. Flash Frontier. 7 January 2020.
  22. Web site: National Flash Fiction Day Winners. August 2015. Flash Frontier. 7 January 2020.
  23. Web site: Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing. University of Canterbury. 7 January 2020.
  24. Web site: Frankie McMillan: 2017 University of Auckland Residency. 18 July 2017. Michael King Writers Centre. 7 January 2020.
  25. Web site: NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2019 recipient. 18 September 2019. The Big Idea. 7 January 2020.
  26. Web site: Frankie McMillan and the Father of Octopus Wrestling. 29 September 2019. RNZ. 7 January 2020.
  27. Web site: 2017 Awards Longlist. NZ Book Awards Trust. 7 January 2020.
  28. Web site: The 10 best New Zealand fiction books of 2019. 16 December 2019. The Spinoff. 7 January 2020.
  29. Web site: Frankie McMillan: The Bag Lady's Picnic and other stories. Bieder. Penelope. 18 January 2002. NZ herald. 7 January 2020.
  30. Web site: Poetry Shelf fascinations: Frankie McMillan's The Father of Octopus Wrestling and other small fictions. Green. Paula. 22 October 2019. NZ Poetry Shelf. 7 January 2020.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Frankie McMillan".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.