Julia Faragher is an artist, writer, photographer and filmmaker. She is mixed-race with Vietnamese/British heritage and a Manx surname. Her work mostly revolves around themes of identity, gender, nature and culture and is presented in a bright, colourful and vibrant style.

She is currently working on her first young adult manuscript Song of the Summer which was shortlisted for the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing 2023.

Previously, it won the Cook Creative Writing Prize 2021 from CAPO and a Bundanon Trust residency through the Accessible Arts 2021 Artist-in-Residence Program. She is working on her second YA manuscript Murder at St Thérèse College, which won the Anne Edgeworth Writer’s Fellowship 2022 from ACT Writers and was a runner-up in the Voices from the Intersection x Allen & Unwin mentorship 2022.

Her writing about arts, culture and sport has been published by The Guardian, Portside Review, ABC Sport and Siren Sport and she made her playwriting debut with Slanted Theatre at Sydney Fringe Festival 2022. She volunteers for not-for-profit LoveOzYA and runs arts and culture blog Overthinker.

She has a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the Australian National University, where she was Editor-in-Chief of Woroni. She is currently studying a Master of Arts in contemporary Australian young adult literature and creative writing at Monash University.

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