About Rebecca Higgie

Rebecca is an award-winning writer from Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia.

Her debut novel The History of Mischief won the 2019 Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript and was published by Fremantle Press in 2020. Her short stories, creative non-fiction and poems have won awards and been published in journals, anthologies and newspapers including The West Australian, Westerly, and Stories of Perth.

Her whole life has been spent in the company of books, with careers in libraries and universities. Formerly an academic at Curtin University and Brunel University London, she has published research on satire and politics. She has worked in the stacks of the State Library of Western Australia and fostered childhood literacy as the Library Officer at Guildford Primary, WA’s oldest public school.

She was the host of the Fremantle Press Podcast from 2019-2020, where she interviewed local Western Australian authors and industry experts on all things books and publishing. She was a 2021 City of South Perth Literature Champion and the 2023 Emerging Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers Centre. She has spoken to all ages at festivals, schools and libraries, both in-person and online.

She is currently working on her second novel. Her short story “The Pyrocene”, which won the Readers’ Choice Award in The West Australian’s 2023 Best Australian Yarn, features characters and scenes from the work-in-progress novel.

For up to date news on her writing journey, follow her on Instagram.