Non-fiction WHEN FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE’S band of thirty-eight nurses set sail from Folkestone, England, on 21 October 1854, each woman was carrying a trunk containing aprons, badges, caps, two types of bonnets, cloaks and shawls, Derry wrappers, linsey-woolsey gowns, petticoats, stays,...

EssayMany of us can name our favourite childhood lollies. But what if a lolly’s name, or the name of another popular food item, is out of date? What if it’s racist, harmful or wrong? What happens when the name of a lolly doesn’t work anymore?

MediaListen to author Laura Elvery read aloud her short story 'The town turns over', a poignant exploration of ageing, memory and endings. This story appears in Griffith Review 68: Getting On (you can read the story here). Griffith Review · The...

FictionListen to Laura Elvery read ‘The town turns over’. IF YOU WANT to know how we got here, we will tell you. Once, not so long ago, we were everybody’s ageing parents. We lived in nursing homes, aged-care facilities, places called Freedom Villas. These...

FictionMolecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn was born in Hobart in 1948. She spent her childhood and teenage years in Launceston, and later studied in Melbourne, the UK and the US. In 2009, along with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, Blackburn...

FictionTHE BABY-NAME BOOK is the size of a pack of cards, left on top of a bin outside the port. I picture a pregnant woman reading it, circling her belly with her palm, looking up to see the ferry...