Author Talk - Meet Julie Janson with Central Coast Reads

Julie is a Burruberongal woman of the Darug Aboriginal nation NSW. She is a novelist, playwright, and poet. While living in remote Northern Territory in Yolngu communities in her early years as a teacher, Julie wrote plays and made giant puppets, masks and costumes with Yolngu students. Her career as a playwright resulted in ten productions at various theatres such as Sydney St Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre and Sydney Opera House Studio. Black Mary and Gunjies was published by Aboriginal Studies Press.

Books will be available for sale at the event with Book Face Erina joining us for the morning. A morning tea will be available after the event, with thanks to Brentwood Village.

Tickets are FREE thanks to the partnership between Words on the Waves and Keyton/Brentwood Village, as well as our wonderful team of volunteers who help with these events.

As part of Words on the Waves Writers Festival we have introduced Central Coast Reads, a community-wide reading program consisting of book clubs and author talks. The aim is to not only encourage reading and social and human connections through a love of books, but also to establish the Central Coast region as a region of ‘readers’ on the cultural map of Australia.

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