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Julia Faragher is a writer living in Melbourne. She is mixed-race with Vietnamese/British heritage and a Manx surname. Her work mostly revolves around themes of identity, gender, nature, culture and sport.

Currently, she is querying her first young adult manuscript Song of the Summer (previously shortlisted for the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing 2023) and working as the AFLW Correspondent for Hawks Insiders.

Song of the Summer also 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, Siren Sport and The AFL Record. She is a graduate of the Change Our Game x Making the Call Women in Sports Media Program. She made her playwriting debut with Slanted Theatre at Sydney Fringe Festival 2022. She 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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