Meg McKinlay
{{Short description|Australian children's writer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}{{Use Australian English|date=December 2021}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Meg McKinlay
| awards = Prime Minister's Literary Awards YA Fiction (2016) & Children's Fiction (2021)
| genre = {{Cslist|Young adult fiction|children's picture books}}
| alma_mater = University of Western Australia
| occupation = {{Cslist|Children's writer|young adult novelist|poet}}
}}
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
Born Megan McKinlay, she spent her childhood in Bendigo, Victoria. During high school she was an exchange student in Japan.{{Cite web|last=|title=Megan McKinlay|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A71488|access-date=2021-12-18|website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories|language=en}} 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".{{Citation|author1=McKinlay|first=Megan|title=Gender and cross-cultural analysis: The novels of Tsushima Yûko 1976–1985|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/192730513|publication-date=2001|access-date=18 December 2021}} She subsequently lectured at UWA in Australian literature, Japanese and creative writing and, {{As of|2016|lc=y}} was an honorary research associate of that university.{{Cite web|date=Spring 2015|title=UWA's 'book bag'|url=https://www.web.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/3011428/124130_MARCOM-UNIVIEW-SCREEN-spring-2015-vol-35.pdf|access-date=2021-12-18|website=University of Western Australia|page=42}}
In 2010 she won a residency in Japan and in 2020 she won a May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship. As well as writing for children and young adults, she has published one book of poetry, Cleanskin.{{Cite web|title=Meg McKinlay|url=https://www.varuna.com.au/meg-mckinlay|access-date=2021-12-18|website=Varuna|language=en-AU}}
McKinlay currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia.{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Penny|date=2021-02-23|title=10 Quirky Questions with author Meg McKinlay|url=http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2021/02/10-quirky-questions-with-author-meg.html|access-date=2021-12-18|website=kid's book review}}
Awards
- Surface Tension
- 2012 Davitt Award, Best Young Adult Novel winner{{Cite web|last=|date=2012-09-04|title=2012 Davitt Awards winners announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2012/09/04/24855/2012-davitt-awards-winners-announced/|access-date=2021-12-18|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
- Ten Tiny Things
- 2013 Crystal Kite Award, New Zealand/Australia regional winner{{Cite web|last=|date=2013-05-02|title='Ten Tiny Things' wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2013/05/02/27054/ten-tiny-things-wins-scbwi-crystal-kite-award/|access-date=2021-12-18|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
- A Single Stone
- 2015 Aurealis Award for best children's fiction winner{{citation|title=The Winners of the 2015 Aurealis Awards|date=2016-03-25|url=https://aurealisawards.org/2016/03/25/the-winners-of-the-2015-aurealis-awards/|publisher=Aurealis Awards|access-date=2021-12-18}}
- 2015 Queensland Literary Awards, Children's Book Award winner{{Cite web|last=|date=2015-10-12|title=Queensland Literary Awards 2015 winners announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2015/10/12/34183/queensland-literary-awards-2015-winners-announced/|access-date=2021-12-18|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
- 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Awards,Young Adult Fiction winner{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2016-11-08|title=Prime Minister's Literary awards 2016: Lisa Gorton and Charlotte Wood share fiction prize|url=http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/09/prime-ministers-literary-awards-2016-lisa-gorton-and-charlotte-wood-share-fiction-prize|access-date=2021-12-18|website=The Guardian|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=|date=2016-11-09|title=Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2016 winners announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2016/11/09/80802/prime-ministers-literary-awards-2016-winners-announced/|access-date=2021-12-18|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
- Catch a Falling Star
- 2019 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, winner Prize for Writing for Children{{Cite web|date=2020-08-10|title=Scott joins WA Writers Hall of Fame, WA Prem's Book Award winners announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/08/10/154890/scott-joins-wa-writers-hall-of-fame-wa-prems-book-award-winners-announced/|access-date=2021-12-18|website=Books+Publishing}}
- 2020 Crystal Kite Award New Zealand/Australia regional winner{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-05-14|title='How to Make a Bird' wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/05/14/186303/how-to-make-a-bird-wins-scbwi-crystal-kite-award/|access-date=2021-12-18|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
- How to Make a Bird
- 2020 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, winner Prize for Writing for Children{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-08-26|title=WA Premier's Book Awards announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/08/26/192143/wa-premiers-book-awards-announced/|access-date=2021-12-18|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
- 2021Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Children's Fiction winner{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-12-15|title=PMLA 2021 winners announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/12/15/207378/pmla-2021-winners-announced/|access-date=2021-12-18|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
- 2021 Crystal Kite Award, New Zealand/Australia regional winner
- 2021 Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book winner{{Cite web|last=O'Brien|first=Kerrie|date=2021-08-20|title=At the end of the world there is love: winners of 2021 CBCA awards announced|url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/at-the-end-of-the-world-there-is-love-winners-of-2021-cbca-awards-20210817-p58jen.html|access-date=2021-12-18|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-08-21|title=CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/08/20/191847/cbca-book-of-the-year-2021-winners-announced/|access-date=2021-12-18|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
Selected works
- 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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External links
- {{Official website|https://megmckinlay.com/}}
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Category:Australian women children's writers
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Category:University of Western Australia alumni
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