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Fiona Kelly McGregor Fiona Kelly McGregor i(27142783 works by)
Also writes as: Fiona McGregor
Born: Established: 1965 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Fiona McGregor has lived in Sydney most of her life. Her short stories have been awarded prizes and widely anthologised. She was voted one of the inaugural Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997. She has written articles, reviews and critiques for a variety of publications including Sydney Morning Herald, Heat, Meanjin, TLS and Real Time.

McGregor has had extensive involvement in music, performance and event production since about 1986. In her capacity as both a writer and live artist, she has spoken at festivals, symposia and conferences across Australia since about 1996. In 1999 she co-founded senVoodoo, performance collective, with visual artist AnA Wojak. senVoodoo toured Poland in 2006. Their work has been shown across Australia, in China, South America, the UK and Eastern Europe.

McGregor is the younger sister of journalist Richard McGregor and cousin of singer-songwriter Paul Kelly. Prior to 2020, she primarily published as 'Fiona McGregor'.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups $32,398    
2020 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — BR Whiting Studio
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Iris London : Picador , 2022 24975681 2022 single work novel historical fiction 'Who is Iris Webber? A thief, a pervert, a killer, the most violent woman in Sydney. A wife, a lover, a daughter, a friend. A musician, a dancer, a big-hearted fool. A woman who has lived a big full life but is now trapped in prison cell. But is she guilty or innocent? Rollicking through the underbelly of Sydney in the 1930s, Iris is a dazzling literary achievement from one of Australia's finest writers. Building on a true story, here is a striking and vibrantly told story of a woman who went down fighting.' (Publication summary)
2023 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize
2023 shortlisted HNSA Historical Novel Prize — Adult
2023 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
2023 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
2023 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
2023 longlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year — Adult Fiction Book of the Year
2023 longlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Literary Fiction / Poetry Cover designed by Amy Daoud.
2023 longlisted The Stella Prize
2023 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
The Hot Desk : Working Hot by Mary Fallon 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2019;

'You have to remember things were different back then. In 1989, when Working Hot was published, homosexual acts in NSW had been decriminalised for only five years; in Tasmania they would remain illegal for another eighteen. Teachers, public servants, most particularly employees of the Catholic Church, were often sacked if their homosexuality was disclosed. The films In the Realm of the Senses and John Waters’ uncut Pink Flamingos were banned.' (Introduction)
2019 winner The Woollahra Digital Literary Award — Non-fiction
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