Talk:Julie Watts

Julie Watts

There are two Julie Watts who have been conflated into this entry.

1. Julie Deirdre Watts is a former publisher and author who lives in Victoria. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a publisher. She was a publisher at Penguin Random House and a pioneer for children’s books in Australia. In 1987 she formed the inaugural children’s publishing department at Puffin. Watts was previously a publisher across both adult and children’s books, and in her later career published adult titles as well, most notably Mao’s Last Dancer. </ref>https://www.penguin.com.au/news/3076-the-queens-birthday-honours-2021)

2.Julie Watts is a Western Australian writer and Counsellor/Play Therapist and lives by the coast with her family. She has been published in various journals and anthologies including: Westerly, Cordite, Australian Poetry Anthology, Australian Love Poems 2013 and the Anthology of Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry. She was shortlisted in the Newcastle Poetry Prize 2016, and won the 2016 Hunters Grieve Project. She was shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2017, won The Blake Poetry Prize 2017 and is shortlisted in The Dorothy Hewett Award 2018. Her first poetry collection, Honey and Hemlock, was published in 2013 by Sunline Press.

The article should be rewritten to clarify the two identities. I have made corrections, but these have been reinstated. Would you please advise. 124.170.127.202 (talk) 08:18, 19 July 2021 (UTC)Roger Watts

According to AustLit:

"The Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 2018. Her second poetry collection, Legacy, was published by UWA Publishing in November, 2018." refers to the WA poet Doug butler (talk) 22:34, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

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