Margaret Morgan is an Australian novelist and screenwriter now living in the Netherlands.

NEWS!

I’ve been chugging along with my second novel, which has taken me far longer than I’d expected. Life (well, illness and death, in the case of my beloved parents), COVID, moving to the other side of the world, buying a house, learning a new language—all got in the way.

But… things are absolutely progressing.

The Enduring Will of Dermot Dempsey is well underway now. And it’s just had a major fillip. I have been accepted into a writer’s residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Ireland’s foremost artistic retreat. I’ll be there for two weeks, and will spend another week or so travelling in Ireland for research. The novel is set in Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands across three time periods: the 1970s, 1990s and the present day, and deals with two generations of women, their loyalties and betrayals. More soon!

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My most recent production was a short film about climate change, These Futures are not Inevitable, which I wrote and produced. Details here.

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I am now publishing short-form writing on Substack. You can follow me there on Lowlands Exotica.

About Margaret…

After practising in criminal law, Margaret Morgan became a professional writer, working as a screenwriter and script editor in television for many well-regarded Australian drama series (including Water Rats, A Country Practice and GP). Margaret's short fiction has been published in literary journals such as Meanjin and Going Down Swinging. Her works for stage (librettos for music theatre) have been performed to critical acclaim and full houses at major Australian arts festivals.

Her speculative fiction novel, The Second Cure, is published by Penguin Random House Australia and was shortlisted for a number of major literary awards.

Margaret also holds a bachelor's degree in Advanced Science in Biology from Macquarie University, where she focused on plant science, genetics and parasitology and taught as a sessional tutor, and was valedictorian. While studying, she won a prize for popular science writing in an international competition judged by Professor Richard Dawkins.

Before moving from Australia, she taught creative writing at the Australian Writers’ Centre and is currently working on a number of projects, including her second novel.

She lives in Rotterdam with her family.