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Online – The launch of Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia!
Wherever you are, you’re invited! When: 6.30–7.30 pm, Thursday 12 August 2021 Where: Hosted online by Avid Reader Bookshop. Join via Zoom. Registrations essential. Tickets: Free! Register here. Explore other ways the world can be through changemaking, science, theatre, creativity, relationships, partnerships…and time travel. Join contributors to Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia! – Julian Meyrick, Amanda…
Read MoreCANCELLED – Live event – Byron Writers Festival and Griffith Review: Memories, Imaginaries and Personal Utopias
When: 2 pm to 3 pm Sunday 8 August 2021 Where: Feros Care Marquee, Byron Writers Festival, Elements of Byron Resort Festival tickets: Available here Memories, imaginaries and personal utopias. Join Lech Blaine, Danielle Celermajer and Fiona Foley as they explore some of the most powerful and effective pasts, presents and futures we can imagine…
Read MoreLaunch – Griffith Review 72: States of Mind
Wherever you are, you’re invited! When: 6.30–7.30pm, Thursday 13 May 2021 Where: Limited places available in-store at Avid Reader, 193 Boundary Street, West End, Brisbane, or you can join via Zoom Tickets: Free! Register to attend in-store or via Zoom. Join Griffith Review Senior Editor Carody Culver in conversation with three authors featured in Griffith Review 72: States of…
Read MoreBrisbane Writers Festival and Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance
When: 11 am, Sunday 9 May 2021 Where: Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland Tickets: Available here Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance contributors Chris Flynn, Sophie Cunningham and Nardi Simpson join Griffith Review Editor Ashley Hay to talk rupture and resources: animal, vegetable, mineral and more. What happens when a penguin’s speech transcends anthropomorphism,…
Read MoreBrisbane 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 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 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 MoreNew, renewing and existing subscribers go in the draw to win
Subscribe or renew before 1 November 2020 and go into the draw to win. In conjunction with the publication of The European Exchange, we’re excited to offer our subscribers – new, renewing and existing – the chance to win an exquisite piece of limited-edition jewellery designed by Melanie Katsalidis or one of four three-packs…
Read MoreDon’t do it yourself
The young man who arrived at my house to fold, vacuum and do a surprisingly good job of cleaning the windows was, he said, a physics student. He was just the sort of person that the gig economy is supposed to employ: a time-rich person swapping his free hours for some of my dollars. I…
Read MoreContributors’ Circle Varuna Writing Residencies
Griffith Review Contributors’ Circle Varuna Writing Residencies Griffith Review is delighted to announce five residencies in partnership with Varuna, The National Writers’ House, thanks to support from the Graeme Wood Foundation. Writers must be members of the Griffith Review Contributors’ Circle to apply for this opportunity – any past or imminent contributor to Griffith Review,…
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