Mary-Rose MacColl

Mary-Rose MacColl
Born1961 (age 62–63)
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAustralian
Alma materQueensland University of Technology
Website
mary-rosemaccoll.com

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]

  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).
  7. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards winners for 2022". Queensland Government. 8 September 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.