About
Author-Artist-Teacher. Seven novels. Poet-short storyteller, thirty books published. Non-fiction, four. Numerous exhibitions.
2024 Start with C Long-listed, Best Unpublished Manuscript Award, Whitsunday Lit Festival.
2023 Knowing Simone wins National Book Club’s Five-star rating (USA).
2022: Winner, Art-In-Unusual-Places Grant, Wollongong.
Prior: Winner, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize, Patting the Dog. Feature Poet, Sydney Writers Festival. Second, Peter Cowan Poetry Prize, St Domingo.
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DETAILS
GR McDougall
Novelist, Poet, Artist, Photographer.
Currently writing Border and Soul, The Reckoning and Sea Voices.
Photobooks: For the Birds, The Passions, Tidal, Gene Pool, Berlin-Leipzig.
2023 National Book Club’s ***** Five-star rating for Knowing Simone.
Photobooks: For the Birds, The Passions, Tidal, Gene Pool, Berlin-Leipzig.
Currently writing Border and Soul, The Reckoning, and Sea Voices.
2022: Art-In-Unusual-Places Grant, Wollongong C.C.
Tidal Series, Tidal Zone, Do Your Head In, and other photobooks.
Corrimal Library Workshops, ‘Writing Stories.’ In Fifty Words, and Coming Up for Air (editor).
Newcastle Poetry Anthology, ‘Calling Up The Day’, Tour de Dordogne.
Don Bank Anthology, Presence, Crave Love.
Two exhibitions, Contemporary Project Artspace, Wollongong, NSW.
- 2022 – winner, Art in Unusual Places. Corrimal Library.
- 2024 – longlisted, Best unpublished manuscript for the novel, 'Start with C' Whitsunday Lit Festivaal
- 2023 – Five star rating, US Book Club, for the novel, 'Knowing Simone'
- 2017 – Winner, National Short Story Prize, WA, for 'Patting the Dog'.
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