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About Fiona Wood, YA fiction author: About Fiona. Fiona Wood is the award-winning author of the YA novels, Six Impossible Things, Wildlife and Cloudwish, and Take Three Girls, co-written with Cath Crowley and Simmone Howell. How to Spell Catastrophe is her first middle grade fiction.

Fiona Wood (writer)

Australian young adult author

Fiona Anna Wood is an Australian writer of young adult fiction. She is a three-time winner of the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers award.[1]

Career

Fiona Wood is a graduate of the University of Melbourne.[1] She worked for 12 years as a scriptwriter for television series, including episodes of Neighbours, Home and Away and MDA,[2] before her first novel, Six Impossible Things, was published in

Works

  • Wood, Fiona (Fiona Anna) (), Six impossible things, Pan Macmillan, ISBN&#;
  • Wood, Fiona (Fiona Anna) (), Wildlife, Pan Macmillan Australia, ISBN&#;
  • Wood, Fiona (Fiona Anna); Baker & Taylor Axis (), Cloudwish, Pan Macmillan, ISBN&#;: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Crowley, Cath; Howell, Simmone; Wood, Fiona (Fiona Anna) (), Take three girls (First&#;ed.), Pan Macmillan, ISBN&#;

Awards and recognition

  • Six Impossible Things
    • Winner, Eleanor Black Flagship Fellowship for Fiction, [1]
    • Shortlisted, CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) Book of the Year, Older Readers,
    • Shortlisted, YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards),
    • Shortlisted, YABBA (Young Australians Best Novel Awards),
  • Wildlife
    • Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards, Young Adult Book Award, [3]
    • Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Juvenile Adult Fiction Award, [4]
    • Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Award, Ethel Turner Prize, [5]
    • Winner, CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers, [6]
    • Shortlisted, Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, Fiction for Year 7–9, [7]
    • Honour book, Kids Hold Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), Fiction for years 7–9, [8]
    • Winner, Indie Award, Best Young Adult (Independent Booksellers Awards), [9]
    • Winner, CBCA Publication of the Year, Older Readers,
    • Shortlisted, ABIA Awards (Australian Guide Industry Awards)
    • Shortlisted, WA Young Readers' Book Award
    • Winner, CBCA, Book of the Year, Older Readers,
    • Shortlisted, Gold Inky Award
    • Shortlisted, Indie Award (Independent Booksellers Awards)

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