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Margot McGovern

Margot McGovern

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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, and her 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

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2025

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Marion Cultural Centre: This Stays Between Us by Margot McGovern

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Books by Margot McGovern

This Stays Between Us

Margot McGovern’s love letter to 90s horror films will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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Neverland

Kit Learmonth would rather die than grow up and leave Neverland …

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