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Meg McKinlay
Occupation
  • Children's writer
  • young adult novelist
  • poet
Alma materUniversity of Western Australia
Genre
  • Young adult fiction
  • children's picture books
Notable awardsPrime 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

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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 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]

McKinlay currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia.[5]

Awards

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Selected works

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b "Megan McKinlay". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  2. ^ McKinlay, Megan (2001), Gender and cross-cultural analysis: The novels of Tsushima Yûko 1976–1985, retrieved 18 December 2021
  3. ^ "UWA's 'book bag'" (PDF). University of Western Australia. Spring 2015. p. 42. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Meg McKinlay". Varuna. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  5. ^ Harrison, Penny (23 February 2021). "10 Quirky Questions with author Meg McKinlay". kid's book review. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  6. ^ "2012 Davitt Awards winners announced". Books+Publishing. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  7. ^ "'Ten Tiny Things' wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award". Books+Publishing. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  8. ^ The Winners of the 2015 Aurealis Awards, Aurealis Awards, 25 March 2016, retrieved 18 December 2021
  9. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2015 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  10. ^ "Prime Minister's Literary awards 2016: Lisa Gorton and Charlotte Wood share fiction prize". The Guardian. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2016 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 9 November 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Scott joins WA Writers Hall of Fame, WA Prem's Book Award winners announced". Books+Publishing. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  13. ^ a b "'How to Make a Bird' wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award". Books+Publishing. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  14. ^ "WA Premier's Book Awards announced". Books+Publishing. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  15. ^ "PMLA 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ "CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 21 August 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
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