Andrew McMillen

McMillen grew up in the Queensland city of Bundaberg, the son of two teachers.{{cite web|last1=McMillen|first1=Andrew|title=About the book|url=http://www.talkingsmack.com.au/about/|website=talkingsmack.com.au|access-date=13 March 2015}} He relocated to the state capital city, Brisbane, in 2006 to study for a communication studies degree at the University of Queensland.{{cite web|last1=Holder|first1=Rodney|title=Andrew McMillen – Music Journalist|type=interview, audio not archived|url=http://www.musicbusinessfacts.net/346/andrew-mcmillen-music-journalist/|website=musicbusinessfacts.net|publisher=Music Business Facts|access-date=13 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311064953/http://www.musicbusinessfacts.net/346/andrew-mcmillen-music-journalist/|archive-date=11 March 2015|url-status=dead}}

He contributed the chapter "The bone collector" to The Best Australian Science Writing 2016.{{cite book|title=The Best Australian Science Writing 2016|editor=Jo Chandler|year=2017|publisher=NewSouth|isbn=978-1742235035}} McMillen won the 2017 Queensland Clarion Award for his body of work in The Weekend Australian.{{citation|url=https://www.meaa.org/download/2017-clarion-awards-winners-finalists-and-judges-comments/?wpdmdl=22131&refresh=6696548c76e851721128076|access-date=16 July 2024|type=PDF|date=27 August 2017|title=2017 Winners & Finalists; Judges' Comments|page=7|publisher=Queensland Clarion Awards}}

McMillen's book Talking Smack: Honest Conversations About Drugs was published in 2014 by University of Queensland Press.{{cite book|last=McMillen|first=Andrew|title=Talking Smack: Honest Conversations About Drugs|year=2014|publisher=University of Queensland Press|isbn=978-0-7022-5323-2}}{{cite news|last1=Free|first1=David|title=Andrew McMillen's Talking Smack gets lowdown from users and abusers|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/andrew-mcmillens-talking-smack-gets-lowdown-from-users-and-abusers/story-fn9n8gph-1227054290558|access-date=13 March 2015|newspaper=The Australian|date=13 September 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/smack-talk-brisbane-writers-quest-to-reframe-the-drugs-discussion-20140731-zz58r.html |title=Smack talk: Brisbane writer's quest to reframe the drugs discussion |work=Brisbane Times |first=Natalie |last=Bochenski |date=1 August 2014 |access-date=12 March 2015}} David Messer of The Sydney Morning Herald called the work "a brave and important book" and noted that McMillen was "careful to provide a balance of experiences, including [those of] non-drug takers".{{cite news |first=David |last=Messer|author-link=David Messer|title=How drugs help some musicians to make music |url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/how-drugs-help-some-musicians-to-make-music-20140811-102n4n.html |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=15 August 2014 |access-date=2015-03-07 }} Toby Creswell of The Newton Review of Books wrote that the "real interest" in the book "is not so much the drug tales which...are fairly repetitive" but "the insights that McMillen gives into the creative processes of [the interviewed] artists".{{cite web|last= Creswell |first= Toby|author-link=Toby Creswell |date=28 October 2014 |title=Talking Smack: Honest conversations about drugs|url=https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/andrew-mcmillen-talking-smack-honest-conversations-drugs-reviewed-toby-creswell/|work=The Newton Review of Books |access-date=17 June 2022}}

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• {{Official website|http://www.andrewmcmillen.com}}
• [https://medium.com/backchannel/how-i-snuck-through-wikipedia-s-notability-test-abfbd15127bc "How I Snuck Through Wikipedia's Notability Test"] by Andrew McMillen, 7 March 2015, Medium
• [https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/contributor/andrew-mcmillen Contributions] by McMillen to The Saturday Paper
• [https://www.themonthly.com.au/author/andrew-mcmillen Contributions] by McMillen to The Monthly
• [https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewmcmillen Contributions] by McMillen to BuzzFeed
• [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/world/australia/australia-slow-internet-broadband.html "How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout"] by Andrew McMillen, 11 May 2017, The New York Times, p. A6.

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