Meg McKinlay
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| Alma mater | University of Western Australia |
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| Notable awards | Prime Minister's Literary Awards YA Fiction (2016) & Children's Fiction (2021) |
Meg McKinlay is a Western Australian writer. She has written a number of books for children and young adults, including How to Make a Bird and A Single Stone. She has won two Prime Minister's Literary Awards and three Crystal Kite Awards.
Biography
[edit]Born Megan McKinlay, she spent her childhood in Bendigo, Victoria. During high school she was an exchange student in Japan.[1] She graduated with a PhD from the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2001 for her thesis "Gender and cross-cultural analysis: The novels of Tsushima Yûko 1976–1985".[2] She subsequently lectured at UWA in Australian literature, Japanese and creative writing and, as of 2016[update] was an honorary research associate of that university.[3]
In 2010 she won a residency in Japan and in 2020 she won a May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship.[1] As well as writing for children and young adults, she has published one book of poetry, Cleanskin.[4]
As of 2021 McKinlay lives in Fremantle, Western Australia.[5]
Awards
[edit]- Surface Tension
- 2012 Davitt Award, Best Young Adult Novel winner[6]
- Ten Tiny Things
- 2013 Crystal Kite Award, New Zealand/Australia regional winner[7]
- A Single Stone
- 2015 Aurealis Award for best children's fiction winner[8]
- 2015 Queensland Literary Awards, Children's Book Award winner[9]
- 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Awards,Young Adult Fiction winner[10][11]
- Catch a Falling Star
- 2019 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, winner Prize for Writing for Children[12]
- 2020 Crystal Kite Award New Zealand/Australia regional winner[13]
- How to Make a Bird
- 2020 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, winner Prize for Writing for Children[14]
- 2021Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Children's Fiction winner[15]
- 2021 Crystal Kite Award, New Zealand/Australia regional winner[13]
- 2021 Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book winner[16][17]
Selected works
[edit]- The Truth about Penguins, co-authored with Mark Jackson, 2010
- Surface Tension, 2011
- Ten Tiny Things, illustrated by Kyle Hughes-Odgers, 2012
- A Single Stone, 2015
- Duck!, illustrated by Nathaniel Eckstrom, 2018
- Catch a Falling Star, 2019
- How to Make a Bird, illustrated by Matt Ottley, 2020
- Bella and the Voyaging House, illustrated by Nicholas Schafer, 2021
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Megan McKinlay". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ McKinlay, Megan (2001), Gender and cross-cultural analysis: The novels of Tsushima Yûko 1976–1985, retrieved 18 December 2021
- ^ "UWA's 'book bag'" (PDF). University of Western Australia. Spring 2015. p. 42. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "Meg McKinlay". Varuna. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ Harrison, Penny (23 February 2021). "10 Quirky Questions with author Meg McKinlay". kid's book review. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "2012 Davitt Awards winners announced". Books+Publishing. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "'Ten Tiny Things' wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award". Books+Publishing. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ The Winners of the 2015 Aurealis Awards, Aurealis Awards, 25 March 2016, retrieved 18 December 2021
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2015 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "Prime Minister's Literary awards 2016: Lisa Gorton and Charlotte Wood share fiction prize". The Guardian. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2016 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 9 November 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "Scott joins WA Writers Hall of Fame, WA Prem's Book Award winners announced". Books+Publishing. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ a b "'How to Make a Bird' wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award". Books+Publishing. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "WA Premier's Book Awards announced". Books+Publishing. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "PMLA 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ O'Brien, Kerrie (20 August 2021). "At the end of the world there is love: winners of 2021 CBCA awards announced". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 21 August 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
