To Sing of War

Catherine McKinnon is a Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisted author. Her recent novel, To Sing of War (Fourth Estate) was released in May 2024 to critical acclaim and was Highly Commended in the HNSA ARA Historical Novel Award. Her novel Storyland (Fourth Estate, 2017) was shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the 2018 Barbara Jefferis Award, the 2018 Voss Literary Prize, longlisted for the 2018 Indie Book Award, and was named one of ABC TV’s The Book Club’s Five of the Best in 2017. Storyland is being adapted into a play for Merrigong Theatre, Illawarra, written by Catherine and Aunty Barb Nicholson. Catherine is one of the multi-authors of 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (Open Humanities Press, 2019). She was co-winner of the Griffith Review: Tall Tales Short - The Novella Project 111 award in 2015. Her first novel, The Nearly Happy Family, was published by Penguin in 2008. Her plays have been produced nationally, and her play Hurt was nominated for an AWGIE award in 2017. Her short stories, reviews and essays have appeared in Text Journal, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Narrative, Sydney Review of Books, Island, Sydney Morning Herald, The Saturday Paper, and The Australian. She teaches creative writing at the University of Wollongong.