About 🔬

Biography 📜

Jack Heath was born in 1986 in Sydney, Australia, and spent time in Wollongong and Melbourne before settling in Canberra in 1996. He started writing his first novel as a 13-year-old student at Lyneham High School and submitted it to Pan Macmillan at age 17. The manuscript was picked out of a slush pile and published in 2006 as The Lab. The book became a bestseller in Australia, and it was soon published in North America by Scholastic, and optioned for film in Hollywood.

In 2009 Jack signed with Curtis Brown Literary Agency, and in 2012 he signed with Booked Out Speakers Agency. In 2017, following the success of 300 Minutes of Danger, he quit his job as a bookseller to write full time. In 2024 he became a co-owner of Novlr.

He lives with his wife and their two children on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country in Canberra.

Interviews 🎤

• ABC
• 2SER
• Carpe Librum
• CBR City News
• Thirst for Fiction
• The Leaf Bookshop
• Queensland Reviewer Collective

Hi-res images 📷

• Onedrive

Awards 🏆

• YABBA, Fiction for Older Readers (Shortlist, for “200 Minutes of Danger,” 2025)
• YABBA, Fiction for Years 7-9 (Shortlist, for “Liars: Armageddon,” 2025)
• Richmond International Film Festival (Quarterfinalist, for "Soda Can," 2025)
• Creative World Awards (Finalist, for “Soda Can,” 2025)
• Manchester Film Festival Screenplay Competition (Quarterfinalist, for “Soda Can,” 2025)
• CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers (Notable, for “If You Tell Anyone, You’re Next,” 2024)
• YABBA, Fiction for Older Readers (Shortlist, for “Liars: Armageddon,” 2024)
• Writers X Writers (Semifinalist, for “Soda Can,” 2024)
• Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards (Semifinalist, for “Soda Can,” 2024)
• HorrOrigins Film Festival (Official Selection, for “Soda Can,” 2024)
• Industrial Scripts - The TITAN Awards 2024 (Quarterfinalist, for “Bread,” 2024)
• Final Draft - Big Break 2024  (Quarterfinalist, for “Bread,” 2024)
• Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards Season 9  (Quarterfinalist, for “Bread,” 2024)
• Script2Comic Contest (Semifinalist, for “Bread,” 2024)
• Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction (Shortlist, for “Kill Your Brother,” 2022)
• YABBA, Fiction for Years 7-9 (Shortlist, for “Liars: Lockdown,” 2021)
• KOALA, Fiction for Years 7-9 (Shortlist, for “Liars: The Truth App,” 2021)
• IBBY Ena Noel Award (Winner, for “500 Minutes of Danger,” 2020)
• ACT Notable Awards Fiction Big Press (Shortlist, for “Hideout,” 2020)
• Aurealis Awards, Best Science Fiction Short Story (Shortlist, for “Pork Belly,” 2020)
• Better Reading Top 100 (Longlist, for “Hangman,” 2019)
• Dymocks 101 Club (Longlist, for “Hangman,” 2018)
• ACT Book of the Year (Shortlist, for “The Fail Safe,” 2017)
• CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers (Notable, for “300 Minutes of Danger,” 2016)
• CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers (Notable, for “The Cut Out,” 2016)
• Aurealis Awards, Best Children’s Fiction (Shortlist, for “The Cut Out,” 2015)
• KOALA, Fiction for Years 7-9 (Shortlist, for “Hit List,” 2014)
• Nottinghamshire Brilliant Book Award (Shortlist, for “Replica,” 2014)
• Aurealis Awards, Best Horror Story (Shortlist, for “Rats,” 2012)
• ACT Young Australian of the Year (Winner, 2009)
• Aurealis Awards, Best Science Fiction Novel (Shortlist, for “Remote Control,” 2007)