Mary-Rose MacColl explained

Mary-Rose MacColl
Occupation:	Novelist
Nationality:	Australian
Alma Mater:	Queensland University of Technology

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]

Publications

• • • • • • • MacColl, Mary-Rose (2019), The True Story of Maddie Bright, Crows Nest, New South Wales, Allen & Unwin, 978-1-76029-524-0

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: MacColl. Mary-Rose. No Safe Place. Trove Books, National Library of Australia. 25 January 2018.
2. Web site: Past Winners. Australian/Vogel Literary Awards. 25 January 2018.
3. Web site: Queensland Literary Awards 2017 Peoples Choice Award. 2017-10-09.
4. News: Johnson. Susan. Mary-Rose MacColl memoir about sexual abuse. 25 January 2018. The Courier-Mail. 30 April 2017.
5. MacColl. Mary-Rose. The Birth Wars. Griffith Review. 2008. 22, Summer /9.
6. MacColl. Mary-Rose. The Water of Life. Griffith Review. 2012. 38, Summer.
7. Web site: 2022-09-08 . Queensland Literary Awards winners for 2022 . 2022-09-08 . Queensland Government . en.