Vikki Wakefield (born 1970) is an Australian author who writes young adult fiction.

Career

After a career working in banking, journalism and graphic design, Wakefield studied at TAFE and began writing. Her first book, ''All I Ever Wanted'', was published in 2011 and won the inaugural Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for Young Adult Fiction in 2012 and was shortlisted for the

Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults The Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults, formerly known as the Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an enumeration of 25,000. Th ...

in the same year. Two years later her second book, ''Friday Brown'', won the same prize. It was also shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for young adult fiction. In 2016 her third book, ''Inbetween Days'', was an honour book in the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers. Wakefield's fourth book, ''Ballad for a Mad Girl'', won the 2018

Davitt Award The Davitt Awards are literary awards which are presented annually by the Sisters in Crime Australia association. The awards are named in honour of Ellen Davitt (1812–1879) who wrote Australia's first mystery novel, ''Force and Fraud'' in 1865 ...

for best young adult novel and was shortlisted for other awards. ''This is How We Change the Ending'', her fifth novel won the 2020 Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers. It was shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults, the 2020

Queensland Literary Awards The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors and administered by the State Library of Queensland. Like the former Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the QLAs ...

' Young Adult Book Award and the 2022

Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature comprise a group of biennially-granted literary awards established in 1986 by the Government of South Australia, announced during Adelaide Writers' Week, as part of the Adelaide Festival. The awards i ...

Young Adult Fiction Award. ''This is How We Change the Ending'', was also longlisted for the 2020

Stella Prize The Stella Prize is an Australian annual literary award established in 2013 for writing by Australian women in all genres, worth $50,000. It was originally proposed by Australian women writers and publishers in 2011, modelled on the UK's Baileys W ...

Works

* ''All I Ever Wanted'', Text Publishing, 2011, * ''Friday Brown'', Text Publishing, 2012, * ''Inbetween Days'', Text Publishing, 2015, * ''Ballad for a Mad Girl'', Text Publishing, 2017, * ''This is How We Change the Ending'', Text Publishing, 2019,

References

External links

Official website
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