Cal Flyn

Cal Flyn is a Scottish non-fiction writer.[1]

Her first book, Thicker Than Water, concerns 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 an exploration of places where nature is reclaiming the land once occupied by human activity, such as Canvey Wick in Essex, and Chernobyl.[4][5] It was short-listed for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation.,[6] and the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

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
  1. "Author: Cal Flyn". Scottish Book Trust. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  2. Reid, Melanie (28 May 2016). "Books: Thicker Than Water — History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir by Cal Flyn". The Times. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  3. Lowry, Elizabeth (2 June 2016). "Thicker Than Water by Cal Flyn review – my ancestor the murderer". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  4. Jamie, Kathleen (20 January 2021). "How nature reclaims the places humans have abandoned". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  5. 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.
  6. "2021 Shortlist Announcement". Wainwright Prize. 4 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  7. "Cal Flyn". Granta. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  8. "Cal Flyn". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  9. "About". Cal Flyn, author and journalist. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  10. "Cal Flyn - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  11. "Cal Flyn". www.worldofbooks.com. World of Books. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  12. "Alumni Book Club: Cal Flyn". Lady Margaret Hall. Retrieved 5 August 2021.


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