Garry R McDougall

Garry is the author of over thirty works, including his well-known

- Great North Walk

- NSW Heritage Walks

Belonging, a photo novel on Gundagai’s black Dr Louis Gabriel.

Winner, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize for Patting the Dog.

Winner, Wollongong, Art in Unusual Places Grant. Making Stories workshops.

Start with C, long-listed at the Whitsunday Lit Festival, 2024.

Knowing Simone, shortlisted for Best Novel Opening in the UK-based Flash 500 competition.

He co-initiated an Official NSW Bicentennial Project, the Great North Walk.

He also initiated the Balmain Institute, dedicated to reason, Science and community values. He was President for seven years.

He is currently writing Start with C as a theatre production for the Merrigong Theatre.

Start with C

By: Garry R McDougall

Start With C *** Long-listed in Best Unpublished Manuscript, Whitsunday Literary Festival, 2024.When a corrupt Bicentennial official disappears amid an Indigenous death-in-custody, town mayhem and a Royal Commission, only Kev plays detective. He first suspects the fiery Aboriginal leader Billy, then the passionate Mara of ‘Patchtown’, and later, manipulative councillor Cheryl Sheila and her fiance and Council administrator, Roger ‘Humblebum’.Weighed down by his sense of responsibility, and his biological link to the infamous Jimmy Blacksmith, Kev wants only peace and civility, and safety for his wayward son, Danny, working for local ...