Julie Farrell

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Julie Farrell is a queer, disabled, neurodivergent author and poet based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is listed as one of the Bookseller’s Top 150 Most Influential People in Publishing in 2022, for her work as Co-Founder of The Inklusion Guide: a kickass guide to making literature events accessible to disabled people.  

Julie's work explores our relationship with nature, and how it helps us to process our grief, loss, and nostalgia in relation to family, identity and the planet. She has published personal essays and creative journalism on disability, otherness and equality.  Since 2019, Julie has been diagnosed as autistic, as having ADHD, and also with Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a hereditary connective tissue disorder. Her work explores many facets of living with chronic illness, and how they are intrinsically entwined with the way we experience the world.  

Julie's essay, Stargazing, was published in Someone Like Me: an Anthology of Non-Fiction by Autistic Writers, in 2025. Through her love of the stars and cosmos, Julie explores her grief, nostalgia and feeling of connectedness, and shares how giving herself permission to feel childlike wonder is a radical act of survival in this world. 

​​Julie's poem, Ripples of Change, won the Aurora Prize for Writing in 2021, with a second poem also shortlisted. Her poem, IMAGINE was published in Not Going Back To Normal - A Disabled Artists Manifesto. 

We Are Fractals, her contemporary young-adult novel, has received various accolades, including the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices Anthology, the Guppy Open Submissions Competition, the Write Mentor Children's Novel Award and the Owned Voices Novel Award. 

Julie serves as a member of the Advisory Group for the new UK arts access scheme for D/deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent people: All In, and was a trustee of Mslexia Magazine 2021-2025.

She was a judge for Scotland's National Book Awards 2023.

Julie's writing is represented by Carolyn McGlone of May Literary Agency.

Follow her on Instagram: @juliefarrellauthor