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Julia Faragher is an award-winning writer living in Melbourne.

She is mixed-race with Vietnamese/British heritage and a Manx surname. She writes across various forms, including fiction, nonfiction, sports journalism and theatre. Her work mostly revolves around themes of identity, gender, nature, culture and sport.

She has won the Open Short Story Competition and the Keith Carroll Award from the Boroondara Literary Awards, the Anne Edgeworth Emerging Writer’s Fellowship and the Cook Creative Writing Prize. She has been shortlisted for the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing and the Voices from the Intersection x Allen & Unwin mentorship.

Her writing about arts, culture and sport has been published by The Guardian, Portside Review, ABC Sport, Siren Sport and The AFL Record. She is a graduate of the Change Our Game x Making the Call Women in Sports Media Program.

Currently, she is querying her first young adult manuscript Song of the Summer, working as the AFLW Correspondent for Hawks Insiders and running the 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, and a Master of Arts from Monash University.

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