Sessions
Currents of Being
Julie Janson, Sundar Sarukkai with Divyata Rajaram
Memory and Country: Australian Writings
Julie Janson, Philip McLaren, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth with Hilary McGeachy
Storykeepers and First Nations Writers
Julie Janson with Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
Bio
Julie Janson is an established Australian playwright and novelist. She is of Aboriginal descent from the Burruberongal clan of the Darug Nation of the Hawkesbury River, NSW.
Her first novel Benevolence, and the sequel Compassion, draw on the author’s Darug Nation background, and the struggle to survive both during and beyond institutionalisation. She is also the author of the Miles Franklin longlisted novel Madukka, The River Serpent, a unique contemporary crime story exploring Aboriginal deaths in custody, climate change and water theft. Julie’s poem ‘Acacia Land’ won the prestigious Judith Wright Poetry Prize in 2018 and other her writing credits include many residencies: Asialink in Indonesia; Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Ireland and the BR Whiting Rome Studio.
Julie is also an established playwright with ten plays produced professionally in Australia, Indonesia and USA. Julie’s plays have been nominated for the AWGIE Award, and shortlisted for the Patrick White Award and the Griffin Award, and include Black Mary, Gunjies and The Eyes of Marege.