Mary-Rose MacColl

Mary-Rose MacColl
Born	1961 (age 63–64)
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	Queensland 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]

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 (26 April 2017), For A Girl: A True Story Of Secrets, Motherhood And Hope, Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin (published 2017), 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

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.

External links

• Official website