Julie Fison is the author of eleven books for children and young adults. She started out as a television news reporter, but the idea of writing fiction crept up on her during a family holiday on the Noosa River, in Queensland. Her sons teamed up with friends and spent the summer exploring sand banks, avoiding stingrays, building camps and dodging snakes. She had to write about it. The result was the Hazard River series - fast-paced fun with an environmental twist for young readers.

Since then she has written two books for the Choose Your Own Ever After series for readers aged 10+. The books let the reader decide how the story goes. How To Get To Rio is full of girlfriend dramas, boy trouble, adventure and laughs. The Call of the Wild was inspired by Julie’s passion for wildlife and her visit to Borneo to see orangutans. The book is also loads of fun with lots of decisions to make along the way.

Julie has also written three stories in the Smitten series for young adults. Her latest book in the series – Counterfeit Love, is about a young news reporter trying to make a name for herself in Hong Kong. It's based on Julie’s time in television in Asia and is an exciting mix of deadlines, intrigue and romance.

Julie visits schools and festivals to share the many adventures that have inspired her stories. Julie has shaken hands with an orangutan in Borneo, been stranded in an open top jeep in Africa (just as a pride of lions started their hunt) and survived a trip on the Mekong with only rat soup for sustenance. Julie shows students how to turn their own adventures into really great stories, how to build convincing characters and how to make use of social media in writing.

Julie has also published her first play titled As the Crow Flies. This is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, with Brisbane's murky colonial past invading the present and bringing with it an air of Gothic menace. As the Crow Flies explores the themes of ambition, consequences and identity. It delves into Australia's sporting culture and the pressure on young people to succeed. Now available at Australian Plays:

Julie's first book for adults One Punch - (Affirm Press May 2022) is a contemporary family drama following two mothers at the centre of a tragedy.  As they wrestle with the consequences of their actions, two families suffer the shockwaves of one catastrophic night, and a punch that changes everything. 

“Julie Fison's One Punch takes a simple premise and turns it into a tight study of class and human nature--what we believe to be true about ourselves, and those we love, and who we really are. A crime is the pivot point for a sharp observation of human nature and blends compassion and humour in equal measure.” - Meredith Jaffe, Author of The Tricky Art of Forgiveness