Rowan MacDonald

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

TAS

Australia

Tasmania AU

Website:

Author's Bio

Rowan MacDonald lives in Tasmania with his dog, Rosie. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications around the world, including most recently: Sans. PRESS, Paper Dragon, Rock Salt Journal, Coffin Bell Journal, Witcraft, Welter, OPEN: Journal of Arts and Letters, Dipity Literary Magazine and Red Ogre Review. His work has also been adapted into short film by New Form Digital.

Rowan's short fiction was awarded the Kenan Ince Memorial Prize (2023). He has twice been shortlisted in the Australian Writers' Centre Furious Fiction Challenge. His words are forthcoming in New Writing Scotland, table//FEAST Literary Magazine, The Turning Leaf Journal, Vine Leaves Press, and Mikrokosmos Journal.

He's ranked in the Top 3 Most Popular Book Reviewers on Goodreads (Australia).

"Gentle, authentic storytelling." - Australian Writers' Centre.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Journals:

Defunct

Defunkt Magazine

FLARE: The Flagler Review

Hive Avenue

Kind Writers Literary Magazine

Miracle Monocle

Ocotillo Review

Poor Yorick

Scriblerus

Sheepshead Review

Stonecrop Magazine

Thirteen Bridges Review

Fiction

Journals:

Black Fork Review

Coffin Bell

Dipity

Ignatian Literary Magazine

Open: Journal of Arts & Letters

Paper Dragon

Red Ogre Review

The Archive

Welter

White Wall Review

Prizes won:

The Kenan Ince Memorial Prize (2023)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Tim Winton, Fredrik Backman, Bill Bryson, William McInnes, Alistair MacLean, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ernest Hemingway, Heather Rose, Enid Blyton, Paul Jennings.

What I'm reading now:

For Everything A Time by Mark McAvaney, The Coast Road by Alan Murrin, Raven Black by Ann Cleeves

More Information

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Australia

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Last update: Apr 28, 2024