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  • Web site: 2015-04-15. 2020-08-30. Prior to this she dropped out of law and completed an arts degree, both at Melbourne University, worked in marketing and in arts management, did some freelance journalism, and studied screenwriting at RMIT. CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2014 winners announced. en.
  • Web site: Fiona Wood.

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  • Web site: 2013-11-29. 2020-08-30. 2020-08-30. REAL Awards 2015 shortlists announced. 2020-08-30. That will take some navigating.

    New girl Lou has zero interest in fitting in, or joining in. She has two YA children, and lives in Melbourne with her husband.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Wood_(writer)

    Interviews

    Guest blog posts

    • The Midnight Garden – Girls, Sex and Wildlife
    • Post teen Trauma, Simmone Howell – Anatomy of a Novel, Six Impossible Things
    • Narrative Transport, Michael Pryor
    • Girls, Sex and Wildlife, The Midnight Garden
    • Female Sexuality in YA Fiction, Stacked
    • Inspirations & Influences, The Book Smugglers
    • Eight Things I Researched Writing Wildlife, NOVL

    • Fiona Wood (writer) explained

    Fiona Anna Wood is an Australian writer of young adult fiction.

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    She worked for 12 years as a scriptwriter for television series, including episodes of Neighbours, Home and Away and MDA,[1] before her first novel, Six Impossible Things, was published in 2010.

    Awards and recognition

    • Six Impossible Things
      • Winner, Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship for Fiction, 2008[2]
      • Shortlisted, CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2011
      • Shortlisted, YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards), 2014
      • Shortlisted, YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards), 2016
    • Wildlife
      • Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards, Young Adult Book Award, 2013[3]
      • Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Young Adult Fiction Award, 2014[4]
      • Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Award, Ethel Turner Prize, 2014[5]
      • Winner, CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2014[6]
      • Shortlisted, Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, Fiction for Year 7–9, 2015[7]
      • Honour book, Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), Fiction for years 7–9, 2015[8]
    • Cloudwish
      • Winner, Indie Award, Best Young Adult (Independent Booksellers Awards), 2016[9]
      • Winner, CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2016
      • Shortlisted, ABIA Awards (Australian Book Industry Awards)
      • Shortlisted, WA Young Readers' Book Award
    • Take Three Girls
      • Winner, CBCA, Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2018
      • Shortlisted, Gold Inky Award
      • Shortlisted, Indie Award (Independent Booksellers Awards)

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Fiona Wood.

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    2. Web site: 2013-08-20. She has served as a judge for the AWGIE Awards (Australian Writers’ Guild) and as an ambassador for The Stella Prize Schools Program and the Ardoch Youth Foundation.

      fiona wood author biography for books

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    3. Web site: 2015-11-10. She is a three-time winner of the award.

      Career

      Fiona Wood is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. Varuna. Books+Publishing.