Julie Watts OAM (born 1950) is an Australian author and publisher.
Watts received both the Pixie O'Harris Award for Distinguished and Dedicated Service to the Development and Reputation of Australian Children's Books[2] and, in 2001, the Dromkeen Medal for her contribution to children's literature.
[3] Watts was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for "service to literature" in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours.
[4] The Victorian Society of Editors made a presentation based on a transcript from three books and a film of Julie Watts.
Watts is not to be confused with the poet Julie Watts,[5] from Western Australia, who won the Blake Poetry Prize in 2017 and, in February 2018, the Dorothy Hewett Award for Legacy, an unpublished manuscript of collected poems[6]