Collaborations

Julia co-founded Diamond Twig press with Ellen Phethean in 1992 as they both passionately believed in encouraging new women writers.

Julia collaborated with the photographer Sharon Bailey on a number of projects including Tangles and Starburst, Home Truths, Art posters for buses in County Durham and a photography exhibition that ran with the play Eating the Elephant about breast cancer.

Julia worked on three projects with glass artist Cate Watkinson; The Grainger Town project Nine Things to Do on a Bench, Shorelines and Piers In Piers Out.

Julia loved music and loved being around musicians. She wrote songs and handed them out to musicians she knew and encouraged them to set them to music and often incorporated music in her plays.

ProudWords was a northeast-based creative writing festival created for and delivered by LGBTQI people that ran for ten years from 1998. It was a unique queer presence in the creative terrain of the UK.

Julia collaborated with the artist Emma Holliday. Emma painted and Julia wrote. They would go off to the coast and to places around the city which Emma would paint and Julia would write a poem about.