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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.

Her first young adult manuscript was shortlisted for the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing.

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 inaugural Writers Victoria Edenhope Artist Residency.

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.

Her writing for the stage has been performed at the National Theatre of Parramatta, Northcote Hall Town Hall Arts Centre and the Flight Path Theatre in collaboration with Slanted Theatre, Darebin Arts and the Sydney Fringe Festival.

Currently, she is a PhD student and Cécile Parrish Memorial Scholar in Creative Writing at Monash University, working as the AFLW Correspondent for Hawks Insiders and running the arts and culture blog Overthinker.

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