by Julia Lawrinson | Jun 13, 2024 | memoir, Reviews, Uncategorized
I have been doing A Lot of work connecting the memoir with its audience lately. This has been affirming and wonderful, while occasionally giving me material for my therapist when an interviewer asks a question I realise I need to go away and unpack. One of these was...
by Julia Lawrinson | Dec 14, 2023 | Books, memoir
Dear reader, welcome to my new website! You’ll notice that it has lots of bells and whistles, and is also far easier to navigate than the old one. It has new sections for my different book categories. It has more detail about what kind of talks, presentations...
by Julia Lawrinson | Jan 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
One day, several years ago, I was minding my own business when I got a message through the contact form on this website. I’ve had some lovely messages before – people in their twenties and thirties who loved my early novels when they were teenagers, researchers...
by Julia Lawrinson | Mar 20, 2022 | Children's literature
The Children’s Books Council of WA’s annual A Night With Our Stars event was held on Friday 18 March at the Bendat Parent and Community Centre in Wembley. En-masked, sanitised and socially distanced teachers, librarians, publishers, booksellers, writers and...
by Julia Lawrinson | Jul 10, 2011 | Books, Melting
In an otherwise trying week, I had a burst of writing-related serendipity on Wednesday. Sometimes, with writing, you feel like you’re trying to melt glass with your breath: it just won’t yield, and no matter the effort you expend. Sometimes it’s not the writing...