Escape Routes
Sometimes, we all need to get away...
From mermaids and space matriarchs to fresh starts and flights of fancy, Escape Routes explores what it means to break out and break free.
Submissions now open – Griffith Review Emerging Voices competition
Calling all emerging writers: Griffith Review's second Emerging Voices competition is now open!
We're looking for standout fiction or non-fiction on any theme you like. Find out more here and submit via Submittable by 18 March 2022.
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A collaboration between The Finishing School, Parramatta Artists' Studios and Griffith Review, Art Lives Here features five essays by award-winning writers on the work of five dynamic contemporary visual artists.
Poetry submissions open for Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning
How can we begin to imagine a better future without a full recognition of the past and a full recognition of the moral force of First Nations? And how can this examination and exchange take place in an era of quick assumptions and divides, alternative facts and cancellations?
Poetry submissions are open now for Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning. Find out more here and submit via Submittable by 15 February 2022.
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