Authors and Guests

Julie Janson

Uncategorized, Writer

Julie is a Burruberongal woman of Darug nation, living on Yuin Country. Her Janson convict ancestors lived in Aberdeen NSW from 1842. Julie is a novelist, playwright and poet. Novels: “Compassion” Magabala March 2024; “Madukka the River Serpent” UWAP 2022, longlisted for Miles Franklin Award and Davitt 2023. “Benevolence” Magabala 2020 and Harper Collins USA, UK 2022. Shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award 2022, NIB Award 2020 and Voss Award 2020. Poetry: Winner of Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize 2016 and Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2019. Shortlisted for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2025. Plays: “Black Mary” Belvoir St Theatre and SOCOG Festival of the Dreaming 1997. “Gunjies” Belvoir St Theatre, “Eyes of Marege” Sydney Opera House; “The Crocodile Hotel” play shortlisted for the Patrick White Award and Griffin Award.

 

Julie will be joining Suzanne Leal Nardi Simpson, and Jen Cowley in a panel, Wild Country, Safe Places discussing words and language at our 20025 Festival

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Jeremy Lachlan

Jeremy Lachlan, former bookseller turned author, completed his honours degree in creative writing at the University of Canberra, and now calls Sydney home.

Simon Cleary

Simon Cleary is a writer and barrister, and the author of three novels, including The Comfort of Figs

Stacey McEwan

Stacey McEwan is a school teacher by day and fantasy writer by night.

Kell Woods

Kell has studied English literature, creative writing, and history, and writes about made-up (and not so made-up) places, people and things you might remember from the fairy tales you read as a child. Her books, however, are most definitely not for children.

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