Vikki Wakefield writes realistic fiction for Young Adults. Her work is distinctly Australian with a touch of magical realism, exploring coming-of-age, family, class, relationships, and the lives of contemporary Australian teens, and includes award-winning novels All I Ever Wanted, Friday Brown, Inbetween Days and Ballad for a Mad Girl. Vikki lives and writes in Adelaide, Australia. This Is How We Change the Ending is her new YA novel (available September 2019).
All I Ever Wanted
Winner, Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, Young Adult Fiction, 2012
Shortlisted, Victorian Premier’s Book Awards, 2012
Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards, 2012
Shortlisted, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize, 2012
Shortlisted, Gold Inky Award, 2011
CBCA Book of the Year, Notable: Older Readers, 2012
Friday Brown (Friday Never Leaving, US)
Winner, Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, Young Adult Fiction, 2014
CBCA Book of the Year, Honour Book: Older Readers, 2014
Longlisted, Gold Inky Award, 2013
Shortlisted, Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, 2013
Shortlisted, WA Premier’s Book Awards, 2012
Shortlisted, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2014
Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards, 2013
Inbetween Days
CBCA Book of the Year, Honour Book: Older Readers, 2016
Golden Kite Award (US) Honour Book, 2017
Highly Commended, Barbara Jefferis Award, 2016
Shortlisted, Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, 2016
Longlisted, Gold Inky Award, 2016
Ballad for a Mad Girl
Winner, Sisters in Crime’s 18th Davitt Awards: Young Adult Novel, 2018
Shortlisted, CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2018
Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Young Adult Fiction, 2018
Shortlisted, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize, 2018
Longlisted, Gold Inky Award, 2018
Shortlisted, Sisters in Crime’s 18th Davitt Awards: Debut, 2018