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2020 Griffith Review Contributors Circle Varuna Residency winners
Griffith Review is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2020 Contributors Circle Varuna Residencies. Congratulations to Hannah Holland, Cate Kennedy, Megan McGrath, Phillipa McGuinness and Amanda Niehaus, who will all take up week-long writing residencies at Varuna, The National Writers’ House this year. Made possible by the generosity of the Graeme Wood Foundation, these…
Read MoreYarra Valley Writers Festival – Griffith Review Sunday Writerly Session
This is a time when we need conversations, connection and our thinkers and writers more than ever. In that spirit, Yarra Valley Writers Festival has been reimagined and reengineered into a live-streamed event on Saturday 9 May along with a series of streamed Sunday Writerly Sessions for the rest of the month. Griffith…
Read MoreOpen now: 2020 Griffith Review Contributors Circle Varuna Residencies
SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED Griffith Review invites applications from current Contributors Circle members for a week-long writing residency at Varuna, The National Writers’ House. A Varuna residency provides a week’s accommodation, meals and a private workspace to further develop a work in progress in the beautiful Blue Mountains. The 2020 Griffith Review Contributors Circle Varuna…
Read MoreThe Novella Project VIII judges announced
Griffith Review is thrilled to announce the industry judges for The Novella Project VIII. In partnership with Ashley Hay and the Griffith Review editorial team, the winners of this year’s novella competition will be selected by award-winning writers Mirandi Riwoe, Angela Meyer and Holden Sheppard. Boasting a prize pool of $25,000 to be shared equally…
Read MoreSubmissions open – 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…
Read MoreDecolonising the shelf
‘Here is our story, the one we carry on our backs with every book we publish, every day and night: the history that never has and never will escape us.’ In 2019 Tara June Winch set herself the goal of reading only books by Indigenous authors in acknowledgement and celebration of the International Year of…
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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?…
Read MoreGriffith 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…
Read More2020–2021 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…
Read More2020 – 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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