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Margot McGovern

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in Adelaide, Australia

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http://margotmcgovern.com/

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Young Adult, Horror, Contemporary

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Margot McGovern lives in Adelaide and has a creative writing PhD from Flinders University. Her debut novel, Neverland, was shortlisted for the Text Prize and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.

Her second novel, This Stays Between Us, will be published in March 2025.

Margot's short horror fiction has appeared in issues of The Dark and the Aurealis-Award-shortlisted anthology Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales.

You can find Margot on Instagram: @margot.mcgovern ...more

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	Neverland 3.92 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Stays Between Us 3.91 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 2025 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales by Poppy Nwosu (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Wai Chim (Goodreads Author), Sarah Epstein (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Magazine, Issue 80: January 2022 by Sean Wallace (Editor), Jack Klausner, Margot McGovern (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, April 2011 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Petra Starke (Contributor), S.A. Jones (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, January 2014 by Brigid Mullane (Editor), James Purtill (Contributor), Diego Marani (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Dark Unraveling really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Magazine, Issue 89: October 2022 by Sean Wallace (Editor), Margot McGovern (Goodreads Author), Alison Littlewood it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession

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