Fiona McMillan-Webster PhD
Recognition
photo credit: Lucy Parakhina
The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It was longlisted then shortlisted for the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary award, a prestigious national award which recognises compelling, research-based Australian literature. As such, it was awarded the 2023 Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize.
The Age of Seeds went on to win the 2023 Nib People’s Choice Prize.
photo credit: Lucy Parakhina
My writing was included the The Best Australian Science Writing anthologies for 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2023. I was also short-listed for the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing in both 2016 and 2021, and was awarded Runner-Up in 2016.
An excerpt from The Age of Seeds was selected for inclusion in
The Best Australian Science Writing anthology 2023
Mystery of Mysteries
A look at how animals changed seeds and how seeds, in turn, changed animals... including humans.
My story The Virus Detectives was selected for inclusion in
The Best Australian Science Writing anthology 2021
and
shortlisted for the 2021 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing,
a national award in Australia for excellence in science communication
The Virus Detectives
A look back at the pandemic's earliest days as scientists around the world seek answers at unprecedented speed
My story Urban Life Aquatic was selected for inclusion in
The Best Australian Science Writing anthology 2018
Urban Life Aquatic
A discovery in Paris reveals an entire ecosystem hidden in plain sight
My story Lucy's Lullaby was selected for inclusion in
The Best Australian Science Writing anthology 2016
and
awarded Runner-Up for the 2016 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
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Lucy's Lullaby
How losing our grip 3 million years ago may have set us on the path to language
My story The Vanishing Writers was selected for inclusion in
The Best Australian Science Writing anthology 2015
The Vanishing Writers
The curious tale of the scribbles left behind