About

Yup, that is a photo of me 100% fangirling over meeting Aussie author John Marsden, one of my all-time writing idols! The pic was taken at a Writers SA workshop he was teaching and I loved every second of it.
 
When I’m not busy hobnobbing with the elite of the writing world (this usually never happens), I can be found listening to K-pop while typing away at my keyboard at a cafe or the local library, entering competitions, reading crime fiction and dystopian YA novels, hanging from various aerial apparatuses (mostly pole and hammock), and playing board games with friends.
 
Battling it out in the epic fray to be my favourite books ever are Marsden’s Tomorrow series, Gillian Flynn’s thrillers, Jane Harper’s Australian crime novels, and Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy.
 
At home, I cook up a mean nothing much, but sure enjoy eating, especially okonomiyaki, burgers, Korean fried chicken, and carbs of any description. Sharing my space are two cats, Minnie and Lulu, and the golden, shiny-furred fellow who strangely agreed to marry me.
 
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Professional Bio
 

Rebecca Douglas is an Adelaide-based writer of fiction, memoir, and feature articles.

Her crime fiction manuscript ‘Welfare Queens‘ was shortlisted for the 2024 Richell Prize. In 2023, it was shortlisted for the Penguin Random House Write It Fellowship program and awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship for 2024. Her crime short story ‘Needs Must’ was shortlisted in the 2023 Scarlet Stiletto Awards.

In recent years, Rebecca’s work has been highly commended, longlisted, and shortlisted by the Heroines Women’s Writing Prize, Peter Cowan 600 Short Story Competition, Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition, and the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, among others.

Her non-fiction pieces have appeared in Overland, Verandah, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the ABC. Her essay ‘Sanity Sleuth’ won the ‘best MEAA member entry’ award in the Overland Fair Australia Prize 2019.

She has appeared on television and radio, commenting on various topics, and has been a panellist at the Emerging Writers’ Festival and a workshop presenter at Writers SA (formerly the SA Writers’ Centre). Rebecca is also qualified as a lawyer and has a degree from the University of Adelaide in mathematical and computer sciences.

 
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