Mary McCallum

Mary McCallum (born 1961) is an author and journalist from New Zealand.

Mary McCallum
Born1961 (age 58–59)
Lusaka, Zambia
LanguageEnglish
ResidenceNew Zealand
NationalityNew Zealander
Alma materWellington Girls' College, Victoria University of Wellington
GenreFiction, poetry, children’s
Notable awardsNew Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction (2008), Readers' Choice Award (2008)
Website
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Background

McCallum was born in 1961 in Lusaka, Zambia. Aged four, she moved to New Zealand and was educated in Wellington and the United Kingdom, including at the Wellington Girls’ College. In 1981 she received a BA in English Literature and Political Science from the Victoria University of Wellington (including studying under Bill Manhire). In 2005 she received an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute in Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington.[1][2]

Career

In 2006 McCallum published a collection of essays entitled Eastbourne, 100 Years with Alison Carew.[3]

McCallum's first novel, The Blue, was published in 2007.[4] In 2014 she published a novel for children's, Dappled Annie and the Tigrish, with illustrations Annie Hayward.[5]

McCallum has published in a number of literary journals including short stories in Turbine (2008)[6] and poetry in Landfall (#133, 1980).[1]

McCallum has been a feature writer for New Zealand Listener, Dominion Post, The Press, New Novel Review. Since 2002 she has reviewed books for Radio New Zealand and in 2007 for the Good Morning show on TVNZ.[1] She has also worked as a tutor, including teaching creative writing at Massey University since 2008.[1]

In 2013 she co-founded Mākaro Press with her son.[7]

Awards

McCallum won the PEN Young Writer of the Year Award in 1979 and her writing was praised in the Denis Glover Awards.[1] She was awarded the 2003/2004 Lilian Ida Smith Award.[8]

Her novel The Blue won the New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction and the Readers' Choice Award at the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[9]

Creative New Zealand awarded her the Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary to develop her novel second novel, Precarious.[1]

In 2008 McCallum was shortlisted for the Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters.[10]

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References
  1. "Mary McCallum". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  2. "Mary McCallum". Gecko Press. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  3. McCallum, Mary; Carew, Alison (2006). Eastbourne, 100 Years: The Borough of Eastbourne, 1906-1989 and Beyond. Pencarrow Press with Historical Society of Eastbourne. ISBN 9780473118112.
  4. McCallum, Mary (2007). The Blue. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780143007234.
  5. McCallum, Mary (2014). Dappled Annie and the Tigrish. Gecko Press. ISBN 9781877579912.
  6. McCullum, Mary. "Turbine 08 - The Stairwell". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  7. Forster, Sarah (8 July 2014). "Island-styled success with Mākaro Press". Booksellers NZ. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  8. "NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award". New Zealand Society of Authors & Writers Association. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  9. "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  10. "Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters - Literature - Christchurch City Libraries". christchurchcitylibraries.com. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
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