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Talks & Workshops

Julia delivers a wide range of author talks and workshops for people of all ages, and is an engaging, thought-provoking keynote speaker and panellist.

Consultancy

Julia specialises in the development of reports, submissions, and statutory reviews for the public sector, areas which make use of her legal, writing and governance background.

Mentoring

Julia has been working with emerging writers formally and informally for many decades, including during her time teaching creative writing at university.

About Julia Lawrinson

Julia Lawrinson is a writer and presenter living on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth, Western Australia).

Julia’s first novel, Obsession, published with Fremantle Press in 2001, won the WA Premier’s Book Award for Young Adult Writing.

Since then, she has published sixteen more books for children and young people, many of them award-winning.

Her latest book for young readers is Trapped! The Entombed Miner of Bonnie Vale (Fremantle Press). Her memoir How To Avoid A Happy Life, published by Fremantle Press in 2024, received a hugely positive response from readers and critics for its vibrancy, humour, and ‘ability to find light in the dark’.

Julia is an enthusiastic adult learner of Indonesian, yoga and the cello.

Her favourite place on earth is the dog park.

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