Tom Doig (born 17 April 1979 in Wellington) is a New Zealand-Australian creative non-fiction author, investigative journalist and editor,[1] today based in Brisbane, Queensland. He is the author of three nonfiction books, including The Coal Face - a co-winner of the Oral History Victoria Award - and the recipient of the 2023 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Writers’ Award.[2]
Education and career
editDoig has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland.
Doig was editor of Voiceworks magazine from 2004 to 2006 and was co-director of the National Young Writers' Festival from 2006 to 2007. He has contributed to publications including The Conversation, The Big Issue, The Spinoff and New Matilda.
In 2020 he was a finalist for the Walkley Awards[3] and the Ned Kelly Awards[4] for Hazelwood, an account of the 2014 Hazelwood Power Station coal mine fire.[5] The book's publication was delayed by one year due to court proceedings against the mine operator.[6]
Doig was the commissioning editor for Living with The Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa (Bridget Williams Books, 2021).[7][8] Scribe acquired world rights for Doig's next work We Are All Preppers Now[9] for which he also received the 2023 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Writers’ Award to develop the manuscript.
Publications
editNonfiction
edit- Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure, Allen and Unwin, 2013
- The Coal Face, Penguin, 2015
- Hazelwood, Penguin, 2019
References
edit- ^ "Dr Tom Doig - UQ Researchers". researchers.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ^ Mem: 10216544. "Doig wins NZ$25,000 CLNZ/NZSA Writers' Award | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 14 October 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ admin (14 October 2020). "Finalists announced for the 2020 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism". The Walkley Foundation. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ^ "The shortlist: 2021 Ned Kelly Awards". Australian Crime Writers Association. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ^ "As it happened: The Hazelwood mine fire". ABC News. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ^ "Hazelwood | The Saturday Paper". The Saturday Paper. 4 August 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ^ "Living with the Climate Crisis - BWB Bridget Williams Books". www.bwb.co.nz. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ^ "Book review - Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotea". RNZ. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ^ "Scribe acquires We Are All Preppers Now by Tom Doig". scribepublications.com.au. Retrieved 14 October 2023.