Maria Lewis
Maria Lewis | |
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Born | New Zealand |
Occupation | Author, screenwriter, journalist |
Nationality | Australian/New Zealand |
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Maria Lewis is an author, screenwriter and pop culture commentator from Australia.
Early life and education
Lewis was born in
Career
Lewis was known for her role as a panelist, presenter, writer and producer[3] on SBS Viceland's nightly news program The Feed[4] and is an ambassador for the Australian Stroke Foundation[5] after surviving a Transient ischemic attack (TIA) when she was twenty-two.[6][7] She was the writer, researcher, host and producer of audio documentaries Josie and the Podcats - which looked at the 2001 cult film, Josie and the Pussycats[8] - and The Phantom Never Dies[9] - about the world’s first superhero, The Phantom. Lewis won the 2022 Audio - Non-Fiction AWGIE Award for episode two of the series - The Phantom Never Dies: ‘Fantomen’ [10] - and silver at the Australian Podcast Awards for Best Arts & Culture program,[11] along with a nomination for Presenter Of The Year at the Radio Today Podcast Awards.[12] In 2023, The Phantom Never Dies was awarded the Convenors' Award for Excellence (Aurealis Award) for "highlighting diverse fans and fandoms".[13]
She primarily works as a screenwriter for film and television, including projects for AMC, Netflix, SBS, Ubisoft, ABC, Stan, DC Comics, and has curated seasons at
Writing
Lewis is the author of several award-winning books and short stories. Her debut novel Who's Afraid? was published globally in 2015
Lewis' first crime-fiction novel - The Graveyard Shift - was acquired by Angry Robot and announced on Halloween 2022, with The Bookseller calling it "slasher-crime for the millennial generation". She told the publication: "The Graveyard Shift is the realisation of a lifelong dream of mine: to write a slasher".[26] She was named as the author of Mockingbird: Strike Out, a new novel from Marvel featuring S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent and super-spy Bobbi Morse.[27] The novel sees her team up with S.T.R.I.K.E.'s Lance Hunter following her divorce from Clint Barton aka Hawkeye.[28] She is the author of the Assassin's Creed novel Mirage - Daughter Of No One, which serves as a tie-in to the video game Assassin's Creed Mirage (2023) and explores the backstory of one of the game's major characters, Roshan.
Bibliography
Novels
- Mockingbird: Strike Out (Lewis: 6 June 2023: Aconyte)[29]
- The Graveyard Shift (Lewis: 10 October 2023, Angry Robot)[30]
- Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One (Lewis: 7 November 2023: Aconyte)[31]
Supernatural Sisters
- Who's Afraid? - Supernatural Sisters #1 (Lewis: 12 December 2015: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: 14 July 2016: Piatkus UK)[32]
- Who's Afraid Too? - Supernatural Sisters #2 (Lewis: 21 Jan 2017: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: 14 July 2017: Piatkus UK)[33]
- It Came From The Deep - Supernatural Sisters #3 (Lewis: 21 October 2017: IngramSpark)[34]
- The Witch Who Courted Death - Supernatural Sisters #4 (Lewis: 31 October 2018: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: 9 March 2019: Piatkus UK)[35]
- The Wailing Woman - Supernatural Sisters #5 (Lewis: 1 November 2019: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: 9 March 2020: Piatkus UK)[36]
- Who's Still Afraid? - Supernatural Sisters #6 (Lewis: 21 October 2020: IngramSpark)[37]
- The Rose Daughter - Supernatural Sisters #7 (Lewis: 6 April 2021: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: 21 October 2021: Piatkus UK)[38]
- Her Fierce Creatures - Supernatural Sisters #8 (Lewis: 13 March 2022: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: 4 October 2022: Piatkus UK)[39]
Short stories
- Hot Stuff: Surfing Love (Caruso, Lewis, Sinclair. Woods: 1 Jan 2016: HarperCollins Publishers Australia)[40]
- Doing It: A Sex Positive Anthology (Pickering, Ford, Lewis et al: 29 August 2016: University Of Queensland Press)[41]
- And Then... The Great Big Book Of Awesome Adventure Tales: Volume 2 (Goodman, Lewis, Nette et al.: 7 August 2017: Clan Destine Press)[42]
- Tales From Kayfabia: The Unfortunate Origins of Jimmy Havoc Audio Short Story (Lewis: 2 November 2018: Conco and the Fudge)[43]
- The Otherworld Sister - Supernatural Sisters #4.5 (Lewis: 21 September 2020: IngramSpark)[44]
- The House That Hungers (Lewis: 13 November 2021: Aurealis #146)[45]
- Damnation Games (Baxter, Lee, Anderton, Lewis et al: 1 November 2022: Clan Destine Press)[46]
References
- ^ "Matter Of Life And Death Says Author". Gold Coast Bulletin.
- ^ "Author Lets Out Werewolf Inside". Sunshine Coast Daily.
- ^ "Maria Lewis". IMDB.
- ^ "Armoured boobs and calling nonsense on ingrained sexism in fantasy".
- ^ "Maria Lewis". Australian Stroke Foundation.
- ^ "The Stroke Patients Slipping Through The Cracks". MJA InSight.
- ^ "Young Stroke Survivors In Australia". SBS Australia.
- ^ Wells, Peter (7 July 2020). "Pussycats podcast dives deep on a cult classic flop". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ "Behind the Mask of the Vigilante That Helped Define More Than Just Future Superheroes". Gizmodo Australia. 20 February 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ Slatter, Sean (17 November 2022). "Frances Elliott, Samantha Marlowe win major prize at AWGIE Awards". IF Magazine. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ Mediaweek (24 November 2022). "Podcast Week: Michael Hutchence, The Phantom, Spotify". Mediaweek.
- ^ The Phantom Never Dies - Maria Lewis Award Acceptance Speech, retrieved 5 January 2023
- ^ "Aurealis Awards". Aurealis Awards. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "ACMI screens monster mash classic Creature from the Black Lagoon in stunning 3D". www.acmi.net.au. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "Yeah Noir | 18 Nov 2021 – 10 Apr 2022". www.acmi.net.au. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "Yeah The Girls | 4 Jul – 28 Aug 2021". www.acmi.net.au. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ O'Brien, Kerrie (18 June 2021). "Recasting monsters as women: lunch with Maria Lewis". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ Kornits, Dov (2 June 2023). "Maria Lewis Goes Supanova". FilmInk. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "Who's afraid of Harry Potter not former Sydney Confidential staffer Maria Lewes".
- ^ "Feminism, She-Hulk and werewolves: An interview with Maria Lewis".
- ^ "Piatkus secures rights to finale in Supernatural Sisters series | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ "Aurealis Awards 2017 Shortlist". Hachette Australia.
- ^ aaconvenor (5 April 2022). "2021 Aurealis Awards Shortlist Announcement". Aurealis Awards. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ "Horror author Maria Lewis on witches and werewolves". The West Australian. 29 October 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
- ^ Mem: 34921376. "Aurealis Awards 2018 announced | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 28 October 2019.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Datura Books snares 'slasher-crime for the millennial generation' by Lewis". The Bookseller. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "Mockingbird: Strike Out by Maria Lewis – Aconyte Books". Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ISBN 978-1-83908-217-7.
- ^ "Mockingbird: Strike Out by Maria Lewis – Aconyte Books". Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "Datura Books snares 'slasher-crime for the millennial generation' by Lewis". The Bookseller. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ISBN 978-1-83908-280-1.
- ^ "Who's Afraid?". Little Brown Book Group.
- ^ "Who's Afraid Too?". Little Brown Books.
- ^ "It Came From The Deep". Amazon.
- ^ Maria Lewis - The Witch Who Courted Death - Little, Brown Book Group.
- ^ The Wailing Woman. 10 April 2019.
- ^ "Who's Still Afraid? : Maria Lewis : 9780648971306". www.bookdepository.com. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ "The Rose Daughter: an enchanting feminist fantasy from the winner of the 2019 Aurealis Award by Maria Lewis - Books". www.hachette.com.au. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-349-42725-6.
- ^ "Hot Stuff: Surfing Love". Harper Collins.
- ^ "Doing It". University Of Queensland Press.
- ^ "And Then..." Clan Destine Press.
- ^ Toons, Gooney. "Tales From Kayfabia: The Unfortunate Origins of Jimmy Havoc Audio Short Story". Gooney Toons. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
- ^ "THE OTHERWORLD SISTER". shoutout.wix.com. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "Aurealis #146 — Aurealis". aurealis.com.au. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ "Damnation Games". Clan Destine Press. Retrieved 31 October 2022.