Janson, van Loon, Vucic awarded Copyright Agency fellowships

The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has announced the recipients of its 2025 Fellowships for established and emerging Australian writers.

Julie Janson, a Burruberongal woman of the Darug Aboriginal Nation and a NSW-based novelist, playwright and poet, has been awarded the $80,000 Author Fellowship to write Deliverance and Fornication, the third book in her historical trilogy, following Benevolence and Compassion (both Magabala).

Victorian author Julienne van Loon has received the $80,000 Fellowship for Nonfiction Writing to complete Women of the Future: Six essays on world-leading scientists, “which examines the potential of women’s ideas to intervene in and impact on our global futures”, said organisers.

Writer and poet Dženana Vucic has been awarded the $10,000 Frank Moorhouse Fellowship for Young Writers to develop her debut novel “Palimpsest” (working title), an autofictional narrative spanning war, migration and memory.

Copyright Agency CEO Josephine Johnston said, “The fellowships reflect our Cultural Fund’s ongoing commitment to investing in the future of Australian stories. Each of these remarkable writers is undertaking ambitious, original work that deepens our national storytelling. Through these fellowships, we are proud to help create the conditions that make such meaningful creative work possible.”

More information about the fellowships is available on the Copyright Agency website.

Photos (from left to right): Julie Janson, photo by P Penfold; Julienne van Loon, photo by Rachael Michelle; Dženana Vucic, photo by Leah Jing McIntosh.

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