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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]

At the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards, MacColl was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship valued at $15,000.[7]

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

References

External links

• Official website

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