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Griffith Review Queensland Writing Fellowships

Griffith Review is now accepting submissions for the 2020–2021 Griffith Review Queensland Writing Fellowships, which will see up to six fellows awarded $3,000–$7,000 to enable the development of a well-considered work or a work already underway, or to facilitate the next stage of a work-in-progress. Have you got a project that could use some support?…

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Griffith Review Reportage Project

Griffith Review is now accepting submissions for the Griffith Review Reportage Project. Griffith Review is excited to announce our new initiative: the Reportage Project. Supported by Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, the project will provide an exceptional opportunity for three writers of excellence to complete a 7,500-word (approximate) piece for publication in a 2020 or 2021…

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2020–2021 Griffith Review Queensland Writing Fellowships

Griffith Review is now accepting submissions for the 2020–2021 Griffith Review Queensland Writing Fellowships. Up to six fellowships of $3,000–$7,000 will be awarded in 2019 to Queensland writers, or those with strong ties to Queensland. The Fellowships are designed to enable writers across all genres to develop a well-considered work, further develop a work already…

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2020 – A Year of Transformations

In 2020, in a world where incessant change has become the new normal, Griffith Review focuses on the phenomenon of transformation, from the processes that are reshaping the institutional and the geopolitical to the repercussions felt at the most personal and intimate of levels. Interrogating metamorphosis, conversion and adaptation, our editions set out to explore…

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Griffith Review 70:
Generosities of Spirit

Is empathy, like water, in increasingly short supply? Recent research suggests that the average person in 2009 demonstrated less empathy than in 1979. Can this really be the case? Does it indicate our reserves of kindness are evaporating? Can we detect a creeping desertification of human generosity? Or does the human capacity for joy continue…

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Griffith Review 69: The European Exchange

If Europe is a project, as the French president Emmanuel Macron suggested in early 2019, it’s one that combines continuing internal reinvention with innovations and approaches from far beyond its shores. This edition of Griffith Review brings together Australian and European perspectives to explore the ongoing cycle of transformation and exchange. It places contemporary Australian writers who have strong European…

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Griffith Review 68: Getting On

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 unprecedented demographic transformation marks a quiet revolution with far-reaching consequences for both individuals and wider society. As the proportion of older people…

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Griffith Review 67: Matters of Trust

From our first experiences to our last, institutions structure our world – through education and medicine to politics, justice, civics and religion. But in recent years even the most entrenched of institutions are seemingly on the edge of implosion. Either through deliberate political attacks or as an effect of wider disruption, new social forces have…

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State Library of Queensland – Young Writers Award

Griffith Review is thrilled to be joining the State Library of Queensland as the the publishing partner of its 2019 Young Writers Award. This annual short-story competition is open to Queensland residents aged 18 to 25, with the winner receiving $2,500 and publication with Griffith Review! Find more information about prizes and entering your work…

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Brisbane launch – Crimes and Punishments

Join Matthew Condon, Kristina Olsson, Yen-Rong Wong and editor Ashley Hay to launch Griffith Review 65: Crimes and Punishments in Brisbane. What is it about crime stories that make people hunger for them? The volume of content produced in these genres – from the pages of mysteries and thrillers to audio and visual dramas and…

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Byron Writers Festival

At this year’s Byron Writers Festival, join Griffith Review 64: The New Disruptors contributors Scott Ludlam, Phillipa McGuinness and Mark Pesce for a discussion chaired by Julianne Schultz about our high-tech lives and more. When: 1.45 pm, Saturday 3 August 2019 Where: The Saturday Paper Marquee Tickets: Festival passes available online Later, meet with Griffith Review…

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Work with us!

Griffith Review is currently looking for a Business Support Co-ordinator to work within its established team. The primary focus of this role is to co-ordinate the implementation and delivery of programs to build and sustain audiences, and to support the operations of Griffith Review by co-ordinating essential administrative functions. This role includes co-ordinating communication and campaigns with…

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