Mary-anne Scott

Mary-anne Scott is a writer, singer and musician. She lives in Havelock North, New Zealand, and is the mother of four sons and grandmother of two boys.

Biography

Mary-anne Scott was one of nine children in a musical family where each child learned to play two musical instruments. They still sing and play together as a family group[1]. Her father wrote the music for school musicals and songs and her mother Joy Watson, author of the bestselling series Grandpa's Slippers series of children's picture books,[2] wrote the lyrics[1]. Mary-anne and her husband Paul[3] live in Havelock North[2], Hawke's Bay, and have four sons and two grandsons. She is also a singer and guitarist and a guitar teacher.[1]

After years of writing short stories, Mary-anne did a creative writing course at Hawke’s Bay’s Eastern Institute of Technology.[4] She gained an NZSA mentorship with author David Hill,[1] and then did the one-year Whitireia Polytechnic’s Diploma in Creative Writing course[3] with tutor Mandy Hager in 2011.[4] She has had numerous placings for short stories and has been short-listed for the National Flash Fiction awards.[5] She has been a speaker at several literary festivals, including the Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Festival in 2013[6] and Featherston Booktown in 2016,[7] and she was a Judge for the Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Awards 2018.[8]

Awards and prizes 

Snakes and Ladders was shortlisted for the YA category and won the YA category of the Children’s Choice award in the NZ Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in 2013. It was also short-listed for the LIANZA awards. Coming Home to Roost was awarded a Storylines Notable Book award in 2017 and was short-listed as a finalist for the NZ children's book awards.[5]

Sticking with Pigs was a finalist in the Copyright Licensing NZ Award for Young Adult Fiction in the 2018 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

Bibliography 

Snakes and Ladders (Scholastic, 2012)

Coming Home to Roost (Penguin Random House, 2016)

Sticking with Pigs (One Tree House, 2018)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mary-anne Scott". Penguin Books NZ. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Mary-Anne Scott: parenting inspiration for prose". NZ Herald. 1 July 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Mary-anne Scott". Moore Stephens Markhams. Winter 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  4. 1 2 Packer, Ann (30 May 2013). "More ladders than snakes". Noted. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Mary-anne Scott". NZSA The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "Guest authors announced for Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Festival". Voxy.co.nz. 12 March 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "Programme of Events Booktown 2016". Featherston Booktown. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  8. ↑ "Meet the 2018 Judges". Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Awards. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
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