Brunswick Bound Books

Julienne van Loon is a novelist and essayist.  She is the author of Road Story , winner of The Australian Vogels’ Award , and two other critically acclaimed novels, Beneath the Bloodwood Tree and Harmless .   Julienne currently works as a Vice Chancellor’s Principal Research Fellow with non/fictionLab at RMIT University .  Previously she directed the Creative Writing program at Curtin University on Australia ’s west coast. Julienne will be reading from her first non-fiction book The Thinking Woman at First Chapters on Friday 29 March . 1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a piece from your published work.  Tell us what we can expect from the piece you have chosen? I’ll be reading an excerpt from one of the chapters in The Thinking Woman (New South 2019). This is a book that seeks to bring the work of leading women thinkers to a new audience and to apply their philosophical ideas to everyday life. 2. How would you describe the...

When I was asked by publisher Allen & Unwin to be a judge on The Australian/ Vogel Literary Award , I must say I was thrilled and a little daunted by the honour. The Australian/ Vogel Literary Award has been creating opportunities for Australian authors under the age of 35 for almost four decades, and previous winners include Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Andrew McGahan and Gillian Mears. Not only does the award come with a prestigious list of winners, it also brings with it the opportunity for an author to work with an established publisher (Annette Barlow) and to bring into fruition immediately on the announcement of the prize a published book and the addendum to their name forever more of published author (and of course there is the prize money). So it was with some trepidation that I approached the longlist of manuscripts that I was sent by Allen & Unwin after their initial cull of the ninety-plus submissions.  With each, I kept the stakes in the back of my mind, ...