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A restorative residency in Yangshuo
I was lucky enough to spend a month in China to round out the year's end for 2025 as a guest of Sun Yat-Sen University Centre for English-Language Creative Writing. The four-week Sun Yat-sen University Writers' Residency, organised by Professor Fan Dai of the School of International Studies, included working with translation students to improve the Chinese translation drafts of the my novella Instructions for a Steep Decline (which won the Grffith Review Novella Prize in 2019
Julienne van Loon
Feb 61 min read


University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program Statement on the proposed closure of MEANJIN
Image: Cover image of Meanjin 84.2, courtesy of University of Melbourne Press. The creative writing program at the University of...
Julienne van Loon
Sep 11, 20252 min read


New book contract
I'm excited to have signed a contract for a new book with NewSouth. The project is a nonfiction book tentatively titled Women of the...
Julienne van Loon
Aug 29, 20251 min read


New issue of TEXT out now
My work as Managing Editor at TEXT journal is both challenging and rewarding. It's a team project and it's always exciting to publish a...
Julienne van Loon
May 6, 20251 min read
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