Privilege and Power, Byron Bay Writers Festival
In this session, three brilliant wordsmiths – Micaela Sahhar, Fiona Wright and Alice Grundy – discuss their latest contributions to the journal, exploring how various forms of privilege and power influence our daily lives. With GR Editor Carody Culver.
Read MoreLost and Found at Sydney Writers Festival
Loss, whether it brings pain or reward, is fundamental to being human. We lose face, lose time, lose heart, lose touch, lose ground, lose our keys. We can lose the things that hold us back or weigh us down, just as we can lose the people and places we love most. Join Kate Evans, Ahona Guha and Kathryn Heyman as…
Read MoreLost and Found at Melbourne Writers Festival
‘Loss,’ wrote Marcus Aurelius, ‘is nothing else but change’. We lose face, lose time, lose heart; we can lose the things that hold us back or weigh us down, just as we can lose the people and places we love most. Loss, whether it offers us pain or reward, is fundamental to the experience of…
Read MoreHere Be Monsters at Brisbane Writers Festival
What are you most afraid of? When is monstrosity alluring rather than frightening? And what form might the monsters of the future take? Griffith Review 89: Here Be Monsters explores beasts and bogeymen past and present, literal and figurative. Join three edition contributors as they consider modern-day monstrosities: the suppression of dark impulses, insidious forms of othering,…
Read MoreHere Be Monsters at Byron Writers Festival
From the werewolf to the Pale Man, from Count Dracula to the (far more sinister) emotional vampire, monsters of all forms have offered us ways to express and exorcise our fears for thousands of years. Griffith Review 89: Here Be Monsters surveys beasts and bogeymen past and present to peel back the layers of our social…
Read MorePast Perfect at NT Writers Festival
What myths about the past prevail? How does the past inform our present? And how do writers contextualise their work in time? In Sharlene Allsopp’s essay Glitter and Guts the author butts up against the erasure of Aboriginal ANZACs, while Winnie Dunn’s story Sissies and Bros time-travels to an adolescent’s shift at a pizza shop,…
Read MoreNo Place Like Home at Sydney Writers Festival
Head for home with Ceridwen, David and George in conversation with Griffith Review editor Carody Culver.
Read MoreCulture Vultures at Avid Reader
Join Editor Carody Culver and Griffith Review 88 contributors Fiona Crawford, Maggie Nolan and Sita Walker as they swipe right on contemporary culture. Discover the secret history of women’s football, explore the complexities of cultural heritage and find out why the kids are alright – plus enjoy a reading from fellow edition contributor Myles McGuire. …
Read MoreCulture Vultures at Melbourne Writers Festival
Join Griffith Review contributors Esther Anatolitis, Darby Jones and Raeden Richardson as they consider digital versus real world artistic spaces, the hyperreality of the information age and making art in the age of algorithms, with host Carody Culver.
Read MoreNo Place Like Home at Adelaide Writers Week
There’s no place like home, although home isn’t always a place. It could be a feeling, an instinct, a language, a person, a memory; it could be somewhere we long to return to or can’t wait to escape. Join Griffith Review 87 contributors Brooke Boland, Winnie Dunn and Lia Hills as they explore the myriad material consequences…
Read MoreLeaps of Faith at Adelaide Writers Week
Whether it’s religious, political, societal, philosophical or spiritual in nature, the act of believing can be a lodestar, a comfort, a ritual, a guiding principle or a reason for living. Join Griffith Review 86 contributors Ceridwen Dovey and Zeynab Gamieldien as they explore what faith can tell us about our desires, our values and ourselves, in conversation…
Read MoreNo Place Like Home at Avid Reader
Join Editor Carody Culver and Griffith Review 87 contributors Shauna Bostock and Tony Matthews as they explore the myths and promises of home, from the politics of dispossession to the complexities of Australia’s property problem – plus enjoy a poetry reading from fellow edition contributor Cheryl Leavy. Shauna Bostock is Indigenous Australian Research Editor in…
Read More