Margaret Hollingsworth

Margaret Hollingsworth (born 1942) is a Canadian writer. Best known as a playwright, she has also published a novel and short stories.

Background Born in Sheffield, England, she grew up in Sheffield and London, and was educated as a librarian at Loughborough College. She emigrated to Canada in 1968, studying psychology at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia to study creative writing and theatre at the University of British Columbia. She was an ACTRA Award nominee for Best Radio Writer in 1979 for her radio play War Games, and a two-time nominee for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 1986 for Islands and in 1987 for War Babies.

Her other plays have included Apple in the Eye, Diving, The House That Jack Built, It's Only Hot for Two Months in Kapuskasing, Poppycock, Prim and Duck, Mama and Frank, In Confidence, and Spanish Dancing in a Cold Climate. and the novel Be Quiet in 2004.