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]
Milton Edgeworth Osborne, is an Australian historian, author, and consultant specializing in Southeast Asia.
The Petrov Affair was a Cold War spy incident in Australia, concerning the defection of Vladimir Petrov, a KGB officer, from the Soviet embassy in Canberra in 1954. The defection led to a Royal Commission and the resulting controversy contributed to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.
Nerida Newton is an Australian novelist whose first novel, The Lambing Flat won the Emerging Author category for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. In 2004 the novel was shortlisted the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Asia/Pacific region and One Book One Brisbane. Later that year, Newton was named by the Sydney Morning Herald as one of Australia's best young novelists. Her second novel, Death of a Whaler was released in 2006.
Andrew McGahan was an Australian novelist, best known for his first novel Praise, and for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel The White Earth. His novel Praise is considered to be part of the Australian literary genre of grunge lit.
David Murray Horner, is an Australian military historian and academic.
Crows Nest is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. The town is located in the Darling Downs on the New England Highway, 158 kilometres (98 mi) from the state capital, Brisbane and 43 kilometres (27 mi) from the nearby city of Toowoomba. In the 2016 census, Crows Nest had a population of 2160 people.
Lelia Green is a professor at the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University, Perth. Green is the author of Technoculture: From Alphabet to Cybersex and the editor of Framing Technology: Society, Choice and Change, and also on the editorial board of the Australia Journal of Communication and Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy.
Martine Murray is an Australian author and illustrator residing in Melbourne. She has written many critically acclaimed books, including How to Make a Bird, winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Young Adult award in 2004, and The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley, winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Children's Book award in 2006.
Peter John Rose is an Australian poet, memoirist, critic, novelist and editor. For many years he was an academic publisher. Since 2001 he has been editor of Australian Book Review.
The Children's Book of the Year Award: Eve Pownall Award for Information Books was first presented in 1988, when the award was financed by Eve Pownall's family. Since 1993 it has been awarded annually by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA).
The Year We Seized the Day: A True Story of Friendship and Renewal on the Camino is a book by two Australian authors, Elizabeth Best and Colin Bowles about their 800 km trek on foot along the pilgrim route, the Camino de Santiago. The book was first published in 2007 by Allen & Unwin Australia and a new edition followed in 2010.
Judith Clarke was an Australian best-selling author of short stories for children and young adults.
Nigel Krauth is an Australian novelist and academic. He is a professor at Griffith University teaching creative writing. He has published four novels and co-authored a number of young adult works.
Matthew Granfield is an Australian writer and business person. He is founder and chair of homelessness charity Spare Keys.
Lian Tanner is an Australian children's author who lives in southern Tasmania.
The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors and administered by the State Library of Queensland. Like the former Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the QLAs celebrate and promote outstanding Australian writing. The awards aim to seek out, recognize and nurture great talent in Australian writing. They draw national and international attention to some of our best writers and to Queensland's recognition of outstanding Australian literature and publishing.
Hedley Thomas is an Australian investigative journalist and author, who has won seven Walkley Awards, two of which are Gold Walkleys.
The Shire of Highfields is a former local government area on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. It existed between 1879 and 1949.
Rohan Wilson is an Australian novelist who was born and raised in Launceston, Tasmania, where he currently lives.
Kim Gamble was an Australian illustrator of children's books. He is best known for the Tashi books, which have been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for television.