Brigid Lowry
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| alma_mater = Auckland Teachers College, Curtin University, University of Western Australia
| genre = Children's author, young adult
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Brigid Lowry (born 25 March 1953) is a New Zealand author.
Background
Lowry was born in 1953 in Auckland, New Zealand.{{Cite news|url=https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/new-zealand-childrens-authors/brigid-lowry/|title=Interview with Brigid Lowry|work=christchurchcitylibraries.com|access-date=9 December 2017|language=en-US}} She has a diploma of teaching from Auckland Teachers College (1973), BA in English from Curtin University, a postgraduate diploma of English literature, and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writer/lowry-brigid/|title=Brigid Lowry|website=New Zealand Book Council|access-date=9 December 2017}} Lowry has lived for some time in Australia, returning to live in Nelson, New Zealand from 2000 to 2010. She currently resides in Perth, Western Australia.{{Cite news|url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/brigidlowry/|title=Brigid Lowry|work=US Macmillan|access-date=9 December 2017|language=en-US}}
Career
Lowry is primarily a children's and young adult author, she has also published poetry and short stories. She became a professional writer in 1985 and also teaches creative writing.
Lowry has been published in Western Word, Far & Wide, Southern Review, Imago, Western Word Magazine, Mind Moon Circle, Fremantle Arts Review, Speculum Magazine, Naked Eye, Westerly Magazine and Australian Book Review.
Awards
Guitar Highway Rose won the 1999 Avis Page Award in the West Australian Young Readers' Book Awards{{Cite news|url=https://wayrba.org.au/past-winners/avis-page-award-winners/|title=Avis Page Award|date=14 February 2009|work=West Australian Young Readers' Book Award|access-date=9 December 2017|language=en-US}} and was shortlisted for the 1998 Children's Book Council of Australia Readers Book of the Year (Older Readers).{{Cite web|url=http://archive.cbca.org.au/9099.htm|title=Winners and Shortlists 1990 - 1999|website=CBCA|access-date=9 December 2017}} It was also shortlisted in the 2006 LIANZA Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award.{{Cite news|url=https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/esther-glen-award/|title=LIANZA Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award|work=christchurchcitylibraries.com|access-date=9 December 2017|language=en-US}}
In 2006 With Lots of Love from Georgia won the Young Adult Fiction category at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults,{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults/past-winners-by-author?letter=L|title=Past Winners by Author|website=New Zealand Book Awards Trust|access-date=9 December 2017}} and was included in the 2006 Storylines Notable Young Adult Fiction Book list.{{Cite web|url=https://www.storylines.org.nz/site/storylines/files/downloads/Awards/Storylines_Notable_Books_List_2006_for_books_published_in_2005.pdf|title=Notable New Zealand Children's and Young Adult Books of 2006|website=Storylines|access-date=9 December 2017}}
Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful won the 2008 Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction{{Cite web|url=https://writersvictoria.org.au/writing-life/news/2008-premiers-literary-awards-winners|title=2008 Premier's Literary Awards winners|date=21 June 2015|website=Writers Victoria|language=en|access-date=9 December 2017}} and was a finalist in the Young Adult Fiction category at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.{{Cite news|url=https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/nz-post-book-awards-young-adult/|title=New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults – Young Adult Fiction|work=christchurchcitylibraries.com|access-date=9 December 2017|language=en-US}}
Juicy Writing: Inspiration and Techniques for Young Writers was included in the 2009 Storylines Notable Non-Fiction Book list{{Cite web|url=https://www.storylines.org.nz/site/storylines/files/downloads/Awards/Storylines_Notable_Books_List_2009_for_books_published_in_2008.pdf|title=Notable New Zealand Children's and Young Adult Books of 2009|website=Storylines|access-date=9 December 2017}} and was shortlisted in the non-fiction category in the 2009 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://www.storylines.org.nz/Storylines+Profiles/Profiles+I-M/More+in+Profiles+I-M/Brigid+Lowry.html|title=Brigid Lowry|website=Storylines|language=en|access-date=9 December 2017}}
Lowry received the 2008 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship with Paula Morris.{{Cite news|url=http://www.grimshaw.co.nz/about-us/grimshaw-sargeson-fellowship/|title=Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship|access-date=9 December 2017|language=en-US}} In 2004 she was the University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence.{{Cite web|url=http://www.otago.ac.nz/otagofellows/allprevious_writer.html|title=The University of Otago College of Education/Creative NZ Children's Writer in Residence|website=The University of Otago|language=en-nz|access-date=9 December 2017}} In February 2017, Lowry was the visiting writer at the Michael King Writers Centre.{{Cite web|url=http://www.writerscentre.org.nz/visiting_writers.php?year=2017|title=Visiting Writers|website=Michael King Writers' Centre|access-date=9 December 2017}}
Published works
- Fizz, Max & Me (1993, Pan Australia)
- Guitar Highway Rose (1996, Allen and Unwin, reissued in 2004)
- Follow the Blue (2001, Allen and Unwin)
- Spacecamp (2002, Allen and Unwin), co-authored with son, Sam Field
- With Lots of Love from Georgia (2005, Allen and Unwin)
- Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful (2007, Allen & Unwin)
- Juicy Writing: Inspiration and Techniques for Young Writers (2008, Allen & Unwin), non-fiction
- Triple Ripple (2011, Allen and Unwin)
- Still Life with Teapot: On Zen, Memoir and Creativity (2016, Fremantle Press), memoir
- A Year of Loving Kindess To Myself and other essays. (2021, Fremantle Press), memoir
References
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Category:Writers from Auckland
Category:University of Western Australia alumni
Category:Curtin University alumni
Category:New Zealand fiction writers
Category:New Zealand women novelists
Category:New Zealand women short story writers
Category:New Zealand women poets
Category:New Zealand women children's writers