Posts by Emma Reason
Brisbane Writers Festival and Griffith Review 72: States of Mind
When: Midday, Saturday 8 May 2021 Where: Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland Tickets: Available here How do the stories we tell influence the lives we lead and the lives we create through fiction, poetry and song? How do we bring the internal lives of characters to life – and how do the internal…
Read MoreSOLD OUT – Sydney Writers’ Festival – The Nature Conservancy’s Nature Writing Prize 2021
With Alison Rowe and Ashley Hay The Nature Conservancy Australia’s Nature Writing Prize promotes and celebrates the art of nature writing in Australia, working to encourage a greater appreciation of our magnificent landscapes. Join Alison Rowe, Managing Director of The Nature Conservancy, for the announcement of the winner and runner-up, as judged by Tara June…
Read MoreSOLD OUT – Sydney Writers’ Festival – Griffith Review 72: States of Mind
With Lech Blaine, Kathryn Heyman and Masako Fukui / Chaired by Ashley Hay How do different places and times in history influence the characters we create – in fiction and for ourselves? Explore these questions and more through the prisms of imagination, storytelling and memory with contributors to Griffith Review 72: States of Mind Lech Blaine, Kathryn…
Read MoreABC RN Big Ideas and Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance
When: 6:30 pm, Monday 12 April 2021 Where: The Collective, 139 Elgin Street, Carlton, hosted by Readings Tickets: Free. Please register here Join Paul Barclay, Radio National’s Big Ideas presenter, in conversation with contributors to Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance, Sophie Cunningham, Anne Orford and Alan Schwartz. Please note this show will be…
Read MoreAdelaide Writers’ Week – Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance
With Gabrielle Chan, Nardi Simpson and Clare Wright / Chaired by Ashley Hay Was 2020 a year of rupture that will change what we do with what we have? How will it impact on our ideas of access and abundance, of security and agency? How will it alter the way we think about resources – tangible and…
Read MoreWorld Science Festival Brisbane Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance
How will we change what we do with what we have? Join Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance contributors Sophie Cunningham, Ian Lowe and Jasmin McGaughey and editor Ashley Hay at World Science Festival Brisbane as they explore the ways in which our changing relationships with resources are altering what we do with all that’s…
Read MoreLaunch – Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance
Wherever you are, you’re invited! When: 6.30–7.30pm, Thursday 11 February 2021 Where: Hosted by Avid Reader – limited places available in-store or join via Zoom Tickets: Free! Attend in-store or via Zoom. Registration details below. Join Griffith Review editor Ashley Hay in conversation with featured authors from Remaking the Balance Jo Chandler, Bronwyn Fredericks, Lesley-Anne Houghton and Robin E Roberts as…
Read MoreThe Elemental Summer
Earth, Wind, Water, Fire: Life in a Climate Emergency The adaptation/mitigation/revolution required to navigate the brutal and ongoing climate emergency – our new abnormal – demands terrific change in terms of how we live, how we work, what we do. To witness this changing world, Griffith Review has commissioned a powerful series of works from…
Read MoreThe Whitlam Institute and Griffith Review – Closed Borders, Open Minds?
An online conversation from Griffith Review 69: The European Exchange 6pm AEDT, Thursday 10 December 2020 Presented by the Whitlam Institute REGISTER HERE COVID-19 has changed our world. Australia’s international border has been effectively closed since March and the continent seems more distant than ever from places and people that have long influenced…
Read MoreABC RN Big Ideas and The Elemental Summer
Wherever you are, you’re invited! ABC RN Big Ideas and The Elemental Summer When: 6:30–7:30 pm AEST, Tuesday 15 December 2020 Where: Zoom hosted by Avid Reader Tickets: Free. Please register here Are we on the brink of another unstable summer? In anticipation of what the next summer might bring, Griffith Review is publishing…
Read MoreWollongong Writers Festival: Seventy is the new fifty
When: 6pm AEDT, Thursday 26 November 2020 Where: Zoom hosted by Wollongong Writers Festival Tickets: $10 + booking fee. Purchase here. In a world where seventy is the new fifty, old age isn’t what it used to be. By 2060, the ratio of Australians aged over sixty-five will have passed one in four. This…
Read MoreLaunch – Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit
Wherever you are, you’re invited! Launch of Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit . When: 6.30–7.30pm, Thursday 12 November 2020 Where: Zoom event hosted by Avid Reader Tickets: Free! Register here The end of this challenging year feels like a good time to be exploring and celebrating generosities of spirit with powerful short fiction, non-fiction and poetry from an exciting range of emerging…
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