Cal Flyn
Cal Flyn is a Scottish non-fiction writer.[1]
Her first book Thicker Than Water concerned her great-great-uncle Angus McMillan who emigrated from Scotland to Australia and was one of the perpetrators of the Gippsland massacres.[2][3] Her second book Islands of Abandonment is about places abandoned by humanity, including islands but also inland places such as Canvey Wick in Essex and Chernobyl;[4][5] it has been short-listed for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation.[6]
She has written for publications including Granta[7] and The Guardian.[8][9]
In 2019 she was awarded a MacDowell fellowship, which she used to work on Islands of Abandonment.[10]
Flyn has an MA in experimental psychology (2005) from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and an NCTJ certificate in newspaper journalism from Lambeth College.[11][12]
Selected publications[]
- Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir (2016, William Collins: ISBN 978-0008126605)
- Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (2020, William Collins: ISBN 978-0008329761)
References[]
- ^ "Author: Cal Flyn". Scottish Book Trust. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ Reid, Melanie (28 May 2016). "Books: Thicker Than Water — History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir by Cal Flyn". The Times. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ Lowry, Elizabeth (2 June 2016). "Thicker Than Water by Cal Flyn review – my ancestor the murderer". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ Jamie, Kathleen (20 January 2021). "How nature reclaims the places humans have abandoned". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ McDonald, Sally (16 March 2021). "Wild and abandoned: Writer Cal Flyn charts her journey to the world's disaster zones and ghost towns". The Sunday Post. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "2021 Shortlist Announcement". Wainwright Prize. 4 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Cal Flyn". Granta. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Cal Flyn". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "About". Cal Flyn, author and journalist. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Cal Flyn - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Cal Flyn". www.worldofbooks.com. World of Books. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Alumni Book Club: Cal Flyn". Lady Margaret Hall. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
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