Events
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 lives of those we know, and those we imagine, inspire and feed creative work? Kathryn Heyman, Loki Liddle and David Stavanger – all contributors to Griffith Review 72: States of Mind – join Griffith Review editor Ashley Hay to explore these ideas and more.
About the panellists
Kathryn Heyman’s memoir, Fury, is... Read more
SOLD 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 Winch and Geordie Williamson. The winner will appear in conversation with Griffith Review Editor Ashley Hay.
When: 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Friday 30 April 2021
Where: Carriageworks Elston Room, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh
Tickets: Free!
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Meet the panel
Alison Rowe is The Nature... Read more
SOLD 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 Heyman and Masako Fukui, with moderator Ashley Hay.
When: 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Thursday 29 April 2021
Where: Carriageworks Elston Room, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh
Tickets: Free!
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Meet the panel
Lech Blaine is a writer from... Read more
ABC 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 recorded for later broadcast.
How will we change what we do with what we have?
Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance explores our relationships with resources – all that’s animal, vegetable and mineral – as well as with so many less tangible commodities. What does sustainability look like in 2021 in terms of food, energy, memory, systems and hope? This will... Read more
Adelaide 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 intangible; animal, vegetable, mineral, more? Contributors Nardi Simpson, Clare Wright and Gabrielle Chan explore new ideas of trade and exchange, sustainability and story, in Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance, in conversation with Editor Ashley Hay.
When: 3:45 pm, Thursday 4 March 2021
Where: Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden, West Stage
Tickets: Free!
Duration: 1 hour
For more information about this and... Read more
World 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 animal, vegetable and mineral – as well as with less tangible commodities such as memory, stories and hope.
This is a compelling discussion on the inelastic limits of the planet; on energy in all forms – from nuclear and hydrogen to human; on how to treat hope and courage as muscles we can exercise; and on the... Read more
Launch – 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 they explore how we define our relationships with resources, from the tangible to the ephemeral.
The evening will commence with a poetry reading by Chloë Callistemon whose work also appears in Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance.
Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance explores our relationships with resources – all that’s animal, vegetable and mineral – as well as with so... Read more
The 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
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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 and informed it – including Europe, with its dialogues and its diversity.
How do we keep global engagement alive in these challenging times? How can we stay open to ideas beyond our own national frame? Do closed borders inevitably lead to closed minds?
Join key contributors... Read more
ABC 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 The Elemental Summer, a new online initiative featuring writing from a selection of Australia’s most respected thinkers on climate.
Join Radio National Big Ideas presenter Paul Barclay as he explores the coming season with Elemental Summer contributors Joëlle Gergis, James Bradley and Susan Harris Rimmer.
The Elemental Summer will lead coverage of the season’s stories and contribute to a necessarily unpredictable... Read more
Wollongong 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 unprecedented demographic transformation marks a quiet revolution with far-reaching consequences for both individuals and wider society. Join Griffith Review editor Ashley Hay and contributors to Griffith Review 68: Getting On Helen Garner and Vicki Laveau-Harvie as they discuss ageing in contemporary times.
About the panellists
Helen Garner’s first book, Monkey Grip, appeared... Read more
