Projects Supported – Fellowships

Burruberongal woman of the Darug Aboriginal Nation and South Coast NSW-based novelist, playwright and poet, Julie Janson, will write Deliverance and Fornication. This will be the third book in her historical trilogy, following Benevolence and Compassion (the latter was shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award). Julie’s work explores themes of colonial dispossession, Aboriginal resistance, justice and identity. Her new novel will continue her acclaimed reimagining of early colonial history from Indigenous perspectives, following the story of a young woman navigating survival and cultural erasure on the 19th-century frontier.

Victorian author, Julienne Van Loon, will complete Women of the Future: Six essays on world-leading scientists. The book is interested in the potential of women’s ideas to intervene in and impact on our global futures. An award-winning author of fiction and literary non-fiction, Julienne’s writing frequently bridges art and science, exploring the social and philosophical dimensions of material life.

Writer and poet, Dženana Vucic, will develop her debut novel Palimpsest (working title). An autofictional narrative spanning war, migration and memory, Palimpsest traces intertwined stories of a mother and daughter shaped by the Bosnian war and the ongoing reconstruction of identity in diaspora. Dženana has published widely in Australian literary journals including Overland, Meanjin, Sydney Review of Books and Kill Your Darlings, and her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies.

Libby Baker, a teacher librarian at Hughes Primary School in the ACT, will investigate character diversity in Reading Australia’s picture books using a functional grammar analysis to inquire into the main characters in the Reading Australia Unit picture books. Libby’s project seeks to understand these texts by analysing how language constructs and positions the diversity of race, gender, ability and age in the main characters, and will generate insights into the inclusivity and representation within Reading Australia’s collection, with a goal to ensure that the diversity of the texts is promoted to teachers and librarians.

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